The Market Report

When new tenants took over Pathmark stores, some gutted the stores and remodeled them . Some made the existing decor their own with some strategic decals. Others did even less. Fresh Emporium, owned by Bronx-based investor Neftali Medina, covered some  of the Pathmark logos at their store here in Landing (we toured their other location in Jefferson a while ago). Once Key Food threatened to sue them over their use of the Fresh Emporium name, arguing it's too close to their banner The Food Emporium, Fresh Emporium made a quick switch to Fresh Imperium. While I wish I had interior pictures from when the store was in business, I was stopped by a manager early in my tour who very nastily informed me photography was not allowed in the store, having me delete the pictures I took and leave my phone at the front office while I was in the store. It was very early in my photography, and I had no idea she didn't have the power to tell me any of that. (If that happened now, I'...

Sorry for such a depressing post, but it's important to keep track of these for the future, when people might not remember a store that operated so briefly. So far I count two stores that opened in former A&P-owned properties that have already closed for business (or have announced their closure). They are: Fine Fare, Belleville, NJ This former Food Basics was reopened soon afterwards following no renovations as a Fine Fare owned by the Luna family, who also own many other supermarkets in this area including Superfresh Glen Rock , a beautiful store (but I'm not sure how it's doing). Fine Fare stickers were simply placed over any references to Food Basics. There were plans to convert this to a City Supermarket , which never materialized likely because of a lack of sales to justify a conversion. Styertowne reported that this will reopen as "Bells Supermarket" in the future, although I don't have any more information than that. (With luck, I'm hop...