Fine Fare Supermarkets Owner: Tony Perri Opened: 1977 Previous Tenants: Safeway (1951-1960s) > Finast (1960s) > Foodland (1973-1977) Cooperative: Retail Grocers Group Location: 320 3rd Ave, Long Branch, NJ Photographed: January 2021 Our second store tour in Long Branch is the 19,000 square foot Fine Fare! (And make sure to check out the first, at Exito Freshmarket downtown, here .) As far as background goes, the Asbury Park Press did an excellent profile of this store and its owners back in 2018, which you should read here before taking a look at my tour. I think the article might be slightly mistaken on the history of the building, though, since the store was built as a Safeway in 1951, not as a Finast -- which had no New Jersey presence as early as 1951. They later entered the state by purchasing most of New Jersey's former Safeway locations in the 70s, and they closed or sold all of their New Jersey stores by 1977. Other examples of former Safewa...