The Market Report

ShopRite of Stirling Owner: Robert Sumas / Village Super Market Opened:  ca. 1960s (?) Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  1153 Valley Rd, Stirling, NJ Photographed:  November 2020 Moving just about half a mile from yesterday's Kings to see this gigantic ShopRite of over 70,000 square feet. If you check out an aerial photo , though, you can see that the store was originally much smaller and has been expanded many times. It appears to be constructed around an original 20,000 square foot pitched-roof section, which I don't have any evidence was ever an ACME though of course I suppose it is possible. Anyhow, that is now thoroughly buried (although you can see it in the exterior picture above), and the store was the very first to receive Village Super Market's high-end "Village Food Garden" renovation back around 2010-12 which has now made it into many other stores, including Union which we saw back in June. Much like Union, Stirl...

Kings Food Markets Opened: 2013 - December 2020 Previous Tenants:  Pathmark Location:  977 Valley Rd, Gillette, NJ Photographed:  November 2020 & January 2021 It's time for another Kings! This one was located in the Gillette section of Long Hill Township, opening in 2013 in a former 45,000 square foot Pathmark, and replacing an older 39,000 square foot store in Berkeley Heights . Around the time that Kings moved in here, the ShopRite just west on Valley Road began a major remodel, which we'll be taking a look at tomorrow. But today is about the Kings. This is the only Kings, I believe, with cart storage inside. The Gillette store was not purchased by ACME Markets in January 2021, so it closed in mid-December 2020. The Warren store , which is listed on this closing sign, was also not purchased by ACME and closed roughly a month after this store. As we tour the store, we'll see that the inventory reduction in advance of the closure had already begun, and that the store...