The Market Report

Food Universe Marketplace Opened:  May 2024 Owner:  Jose Olivo Previous Tenants:  A&P > A&P Food Bazaar > A&P Sav-A-Center > Food Basics (closed 2015) > Key Food (2015-2016) > SuperFresh (2016-2024) Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  937 Lincoln Ave, Glen Rock, NJ Photographed:  January 9, 2026 There's been yet another brand change here at 937 Lincoln Avenue. The store dates back to the early 1960s, when it was built as an A&P. It stayed under the A&P umbrella but cycled through several different brands all the way up until the 2015 bankruptcy, when it became a Key Food and quickly switched to SuperFresh once Key Food had secured the rights to the SuperFresh name from A&P as well. In the spring of 2024, the store's previous owners sold it to Jose Olivo, who also owns a Food Universe in nearby Paterson and a handful of others. It then switched from SuperFresh to Food Universe . Over the past year and a half or so...

Food Universe Marketplace Opened: May 2024 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  A&P > A&P Food Bazaar > A&P Sav-A-Center > Food Basics (closed 2015) > Key Food (2015-2016) > SuperFresh (2016-2024) Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  937 Lincoln Ave, Glen Rock, NJ Photographed:  November 8, 2024 Here in Glen Rock, we return to a store that's just one of those places that changes its name all the time. The building was constructed as an A&P back in the 1960s, and under A&P's ownership cycled through that brand, Food Bazaar, Sav-A-Center, and Food Basics before closing in 2015. It wasn't closed for long, though, and quickly reopened as a Key Food. Key Food did major renovations on the store, converting it from the discount Food Basics format to a full supermarket, and as the renovations finished in 2016 switched to the SuperFresh banner -- a brand the Key Food coop acquired from A&P, too. And in May of this year, ownershi...

SuperFresh Owner: Miguel Luna Opened:  2016 Previous Tenants:  A&P > A&P Food Bazaar > A&P Sav-A-Center > Food Basics > Key Food Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  937 Lincoln Ave, Glen Rock, NJ Photographed:  February 2021 Returning to the SuperFresh in Glen Rock five years after it first opened as a Key Food (it was converted to a SuperFresh almost immediately as the store was purchased before Key Food actually had the rights to the SuperFresh name). We first saw it back in the summer of 2017 , including some in-renovation pictures. Not much has changed, which is actually a good thing -- the store was and still is beautiful, although it does seem the store has been reset. But that's about it. However, I think I should give credit where credit is due, and I complained about the re-use of the Food Basics entrance and exit signs for the property, as well as the re-use of Food Basics-branded carts in my original tour. Very happy to r...

Glen Rock, NJ, is one of those towns right where a very high income area (to the north) meets a very low income area (to the south, including Paterson). This store seems to be stuck in the middle, and has been switched back and forth many times. The store was built as an A&P... Photo from GUman on Acme Style . By the early 1980s, it was converted to Food Bazaar (no relation to Food Bazaar ), a short-lived upscale A&P store concept. When A&P bought The Food Emporium from Daitch Shopwell in the late 80s, The Food Emporium became A&P's upscale banner in place of Food Bazaar (allowing the current Food Bazaar to use that name). The store was, at this point, converted back to an A&P Foodmarket - a standard middle-market grocery store - which closed soon after, leaving the space vacant for a few years. Photo from GUman on Acme Style . By 2002, A&P decided to pull customers from the lower-income neighborhoods south of this store, and likely still held th...