The Market Report

Original Grocery Tenant: Spring Farms Address: 45 River Rd, North Arlington, NJ Opened: ca. 2010 Closed: 2013 Later Tenants: Corrado's Market (2013-2022) Photographed: June 15, 2023 Today's update is a very quick look at the former Corrado's Market in North Arlington, just north of yesterday's DG Market . The store, which I suspected was beginning to falter in 2020 , closed in 2021 or 2022 as Corrado's apparently rethinks their business model. In the past few years, a strip mall they own with a supermarket in it in Wayne was foreclosed, a planned store in Brick was canceled, and locations in North Arlington and Denville were closed. Stores remain in Fairfield , Wayne, and Clifton remain in business, but the Clifton store is soon to undergo a major redevelopment that includes moving the garden center and wine/beer making supply store into the current supermarket building, along with a Planet Fitness. While plans call for the grocery store to remain in busine...

DG Market Opened: June 2023 Previous Tenants:  Drug Fair > Dollar General Location:  11 River Rd, North Arlington, NJ Photographed:  June 15, 2023 and July 2, 2023 It's time for The Market Report's first DG Market! This is a newish grocery-focused format from Dollar General, adding produce, meat, and some other food items in an expanded grocery department. While I didn't really know what to expect going in, I was sorely disappointed. I thought this was the discount grocer division of the Dollar General chain -- something comparable to Save-A-Lot -- but really it's a dollar store with a slightly larger food department. There are a few others in New Jersey, but the 14,000 square foot DG Market in North Arlington -- just across the river from Belleville -- is the latest to open. I first visited on June 15, 2023 to find the store in the conversion process from Dollar General to DG Market, which as we'll see was a limited remodel. I returned on Sunday to check out t...

Supermarket Mysteries I: Decor This post includes: - Greenport IGA, Greenport, NY - Key Food Marketplace, Beacon, NY - Jack's Foodtown, North Arlington, NJ The Greenport IGA Image from Google Maps Street View. The Greenport IGA seems normal enough from this Google Maps street view from 2012. Any seasoned supermarket expert will tell you right off the bat this is an A&P Centennial model, and they'd be right. That's not the mystery here. Here's a close-up of the storefront taken by a family member. Seems average enough, right? Take a look inside through those windows. First of all, that Customer Service sign looks like it belong in an Acme Theme Park store,  not a small IGA. (By the way, it's not from an Acme Theme Park store. Does anyone recognize it? I'm not too familiar with Long Island supermarkets, but it could be Waldbaum's or King Kullen, neither of which I know well.) But take a closer look at the signage on t...