The Market Report

Original Tenant:  A&P Address:  1483 NJ-23, Meadtown, Kinnelon, NJ Opened:  1960s Closed:  unknown Later Tenants:  subdivided Photographed:  July 2020 Our second store here in Butler is a 60s-era Centennial that's been extensively renovated and subdivided. The A&P building, which appears to have been expanded, is actually a barrel-roof structure. And today, we're also visiting a small store in downtown Butler as well as a Stop & Shop right over into Kinnelon. Now by the way, I am aware that these are not in the immediate Parsippany and Great Piece Meadows area as I promised at the top of the post, but we are just doing one brief detour day today before heading down into Boonton tomorrow for two stores on  The Market Report  and one on  Grocery Archaeology !

Stop & Shop Opened: 2015 Previous Tenants:  Pathmark (1980s-2015) Location:  25 Kinnelon Rd, Kinnelon, NJ Photographed:  December 2020 Quite an interesting store we have here in Kinnelon! This 56,000 square foot store opened in the 1980s as a Pathmark (and was originally closer to 40,000 square feet). It's set up, like some other Pathmarks, as an indoor mall and while many of these stores have been "de-malled" over time, this one remains as an indoor mall. Therefore, there are still entrances and exits to the mall in the front and back, with the supermarket oriented to the side. Stop & Shop moved here in 2015 as a replacement for the Butler store basically just across the highway, which is now demolished. There is no sign for Stop & Shop here on the front of the mall, and the above photo is taken of the back wall. Stop & Shop's main entrance is towards the back, but the front end is mostly open to the mall. The indoor mall is actually quite attractiv...