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TOUR: Whole Foods Market - Madison, NJ

Whole Foods Market Opened: ca. 2000 Previous Tenants:  A&P (1960s-1998) Location:  222 Main St, Madison, NJ Photographed:  December 2020 It's time for our second Rose City tour! See the Stop & Shop near downtown here . This store is about half a mile outside of downtown. Originally built as a centennial A&P in the 1960s (see the facade? It's been changed but the bones are still there...) it was extensively expanded and renovated to its current 28,000 square feet in the 1970s. At the same time, the store was likely rearranged with the front-end relocated from the wall facing Main Street (seen here) to the left-side wall of the store, which faces the main parking lot. It's also possible that was a change made by Whole Foods upon moving in, it's hard to tell. But anyway, the 62,000 square foot Edwards, later Stop & Shop, up the street was too much for this much smaller and older A&P, which closed in 1998. Whole Foods moved in shortly thereafter, and th...

TOUR: Stop & Shop - Madison, NJ

Stop & Shop Opened: 2000 Previous Tenants:  Mayfair Foodtown (ca. 1990-1995) > Edwards (1995-2000) Location:  133 Main St, Madison, NJ Photographed:  December 2019 & December 2020 Welcome to the Rose City! With a population of just about 16,000, Madison isn't exactly a big city, but that's its nickname nonetheless. On the eastern edge of the downtown area, which was once home to an ACME , is this 62,000 square foot Stop & Shop with a very interesting history. (Side note: about half a mile east on Main Street is a Whole Foods, which you can tour here .) I mentioned it in the posts from the former Kings/Mayfair in Berkeley Heights and the Stop & Shop in Berkeley Heights , but Grand Union had been planning to build here in the late 80s while Mayfair was planning to build where the Stop & Shop is now in Berkeley Heights. They reached a deal to swap locations, with Mayfair building here on this property, which was previously (and continues to be) ...