The Market Report

The Fresh Grocer of Colonia Owner: David Maniaci / Nicholas Markets Opened:  2020 Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop > Circus Foodtown > Nicholas Foodtown Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  510 Inman Ave, Colonia, NJ Photographed:  December 2021 It's time to check out the awesome remodel at The Fresh Grocer of Colonia, which is finished! The store held its official grand reopening a few months ago, and we most recently saw it in progress in July 2021 . You can also see the "before" pictures there. Today, we enter the totally redone store to the sushi and sandwich counters, which face the entrance. Deli/prepared foods take up the aisle to the right, with produce and seafood in the aisle to the left. A butcher on the back wall faces a cheese counter in the deli island, with frozen foods in the first grocery aisle. Meat and then dairy lines the back wall, with dairy also in the last aisle and bakery in the front right corner. These renovations make...

The Fresh Grocer of Colonia Owner: David Maniaci / Nicholas Markets Opened:  2020 Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop > Circus Foodtown > Nicholas Foodtown Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 510 Inman Ave, Colonia, NJ Photographed:  June 2020 and July 2021 The fourth and final Nicholas Markets store that we haven't seen yet is here in Woodbridge, in the Colonia section. We've previously seen their Washington , North Haledon , and Cedar Grove locations in their Foodtown and Fresh Grocer incarnations. Unfortunately, I didn't get to photograph this store before its conversion to The Fresh Grocer, but this was the first Nicholas Markets store to convert back in February. Nicholas Markets acquired this store in 2015 from Food Circus (later Circus Fresh Foods), which owns other Foodtown stores to the south, in Monmouth and Ocean counties. They've been struggling for many years now, as has Foodtown in New Jersey in general, but some stores are still hanging ...