The Market Report

A Tale of Two Supermarkets: Flanders Part II ShopRite, Flanders, NJ On Wednesday we saw the Weis Market of Flanders. Today we're heading across the street to the former Weis, which opened in 1999 and closed in 2002, with ShopRite taking over later that year. The ShopRite is owned and operated by the Romano family under their business, RoNetco Supermarkets . We saw their Byram store last September. While Flanders does have some RoNetco touches, it's still a Weis in many ways. Or I should say, it's distinctly NOT a ShopRite. Every ShopRite has a certain feeling you get when you walk in, which you don't get in Flanders. That's not to say it's not a nice store. It is, but it's a little on the plain side. The outside is really nice, though.   You enter through the glass tower. Then you make a sharp left turn to go past customer service and pharmacy on your left. Bakery is in the front left (from the photo above) corner, with deli/prepared foods in an...

Weis Markets Opened:  2014 Owner:  Weis family/publicly traded Previous Tenants:  A&P (1970s-2004) Cooperative:  none Location:  293 US-206, Flanders, NJ Photographed:  October 9, 2016 A Tale of Two Supermarkets: Flanders Part I Weis Market, Flanders, NJ For the next installation in our A Tale of Two Supermarkets series, we're taking a look at Flanders, NJ, a suburban-borderline-rural town in Morris County, NJ. For a little history, A&P opened in Flanders, NJ in the early 1970s. In 1999, Weis built a brand-new store across the street from the A&P, but being in a worse location, the store failed and closed by 2002. ShopRite took over later the same year. A&P closed soon after in 2004, and Weis re-opened in the former A&P in 2014. Here's a less-than-spectacular photo of the A&P when it was in business from NewJerseyHills.com : A photo of the closed A&P from Dan Asnis' Flickr photostream : Now, let's see the Weis. (Th...