The Market Report

Stop & Shop Opened: 2000 Previous Tenants:  Edwards (late 1990s-2000) Location:  334 NJ-31, Flemington, NJ Photographed:  January 2019 Flemington is the county seat of Hunterdon County, but still a pretty small town with just 4600 people. It's got a quaint downtown but plenty of highways around the town, and this Stop & Shop (built in the late 90s as an Edwards, then rebranded 2000) is located on route 31 just north of town. We saw the ShopRite and former A&P just north on 31 in Washington and Hampton, respectively, and 31 ends at 46 just to the east of Belvidere . The store here is almost exactly 50,000 square feet. What else is in Flemington? Plenty, but my highlights would be the ShopRite about three miles south of here (because that's today's other post ) and then Northlandz , a bizarre but 100% worth seeing supermarket-sized, three-story model railroad museum... or whatever it might be called. You have to see it! Tomorrow we head just south of Fleming...

ShopRite of Flemington Owner: Joseph Colalillo Opened:  mid-1990s Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  272 US-202, Flemington, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 We saw a brief look at the Stop & Shop just north of Flemington today, and now we're going to check out the larger store in town, the 78,000 square foot ShopRite which was constructed in the 1990s as the third ShopRite in town. The first was at 95 Main St in downtown Flemington, which moved to this property in 1965 although the original store was demolished when this one opened. The exterior actually has some notable similarities to Pathmarks of the era, and as we'll see, there are some similarities in interior design to later eras of Pathmark decor. This store seems to do a very big business and also seems to be very well-run, which I've heard goes for all of Colalillo's stores. Colalillo is also the CEO of Wakefern, the cooperative that supports ShopRite stores. Let'...