The Market Report

Another set of updates, another look at what's going on with Kings. For a quick recap, the chain declared bankruptcy in the summer of 2020, and a winning bid was submitted by Albertsons Companies' ACME Markets in October of 2020. ACME officially took possession of 19 of the 25 stores in January 2021, and since they have been incrementally making small changes to the operation. Now on to the stores... Hillsdale We return to the Hillsdale store for the first time since my original tour from December 2020. All the expected updates have been happening, plus one small surprise we'll see later in the store. Lighting and produce bins have been replaced, which is pretty standard. The produce department has been reset but notably not reduced in size (at other stores, such as Millburn and Livingston, when the produce department has been reset it's been shrunk as well). As I mentioned on the original post, to me it's a no-brainer to remove the produce cases on the right side...

ShopRite of Hillsdale Owner: Inserra Supermarkets Opened: 1979 Previous Tenants:  Valley Fair department store Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  372 Broadway, Hillsdale, NJ Photographed:  December 2020 We previously saw the Kings here in Hillsdale . That store started out in the 1960s as a Stop & Shop, with this store probably opening the following decade. The best part is... the classic sign remains! Despite this, the interior of the store has been totally remodeled recently. The store is set up with one row of parking between the front wall and the street, then larger parking lots at either end. I assume this is intentional, but the entrance on the right here brings you in to floral and the entrance at the far end, which has a sign that says Pharmacy, brings you in to pharmacy. Let's start on this end... Floral is in the front corner here, with produce taking up the rest of the first aisle. Seafood and meat line the back wall, with deli in the back...