The Market Report

SuperFresh Opened: May 2019 Owner:  Charles In Park Previous Tenants:  Pathmark Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  651 N Stiles St, Linden, NJ Photographed:  June 29, 2025 Time to return to the Linden SuperFresh! It's the largest Key Food store, and was opened in 2019 under the ownership of Food World. This spring, it was sold to the owners of the SuperFresh in Baldwin, NY (on Long Island). They began some renovations inside, condensing the grocery selection by removing a large international department to make way for a beauty supply store. I recently returned to find the work almost completely done (by now, it's finished). All new signage outside, including a new SuperFresh sign for some reason. It's a very busy storefront, and I liked the simpler older look. Luckily, the interior is looking great these days. When I was here recently, it was also the most crowded I've ever seen the store. Looking at data on Placer.ai, it does seem that traffic has picke...

SuperFresh Opened: July 31, 2020 Owner:  Kevin Kim Previous Tenants:  ShopRite > Pathmark Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  101 New Brunswick Ave, Hopelawn, NJ Photographed:  March 20, 2025 There's a lot of SuperFresh news lately! In this post, we'll be seeing some changes going on at the Linden and Hopelawn locations, and a Met Foods in Brooklyn recently switched over to SuperFresh . Starting with Hopelawn! The store is still relatively new, having opened in the summer of 2020 . But it's one of three SuperFresh stores that apparently went up for sale this winter. The new owner, Kevin Kim, took over about a month ago. More on that shortly. The store still basically looks the same -- and, to be clear, it'll remain a SuperFresh with no significant changes, since it was just a sale from one SuperFresh owner to another. They're building a new counter in the front corner of the store next to the entrance, which looks like it may be a new customer service c...

ShopRite of Linden Owner:  Irv Glass / Glass Gardens Opened:  1990s Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  637 N Edgar Rd, Linden, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 Our second-to-last Greater Elizabeth store is just outside the city to the south. Like the ShopRite of Elizabeth , it's a large, 70,000 square foot store that is extremely popular, an older store that has been recently renovated and has gone from a dingy and outdated environment to a modern and clean facility. We have seen the store pre-renovation, but unfortunately only the exterior. An interesting coincidence that the two main exterior shots I have line up almost exactly! Make sure to check out a brand-new update at another supermarket nearby over on The Independent Edition here . It's possible the Aviation Plaza store replaced a smaller and older ShopRite here in Linden, or maybe a nearby location such as Rahway on Saint George Ave, but I haven't been able to pin that...