The Market Report

ShopRite Opened:  late 1990s in current building; 1960s previously Owner:  Inserra Supermarkets Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  3147 Kennedy Blvd, North Bergen, NJ Photographed:  March 6, 2026 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted in March 2017, but was rewritten with new photos in March 2026. Now for the post! Welcome to the ShopRite of Columbia Park, a roughly 68,000 square foot store built in the late 1990s on the property of an older ShopRite dating back to the 1960s. It's owned by Inserra Supermarkets, one of the larger Wakefern members that owns ShopRite , Fresh Grocer , and Price Rite stores in NJ and NY. Over the last ten years or so, Inserra has freshened up their store fleet, purging most of the worst outdated locations and replacing them with fresh new locations (or else simply extensively renovated them ). The ShopRite here in North Bergen seems to have escaped Inserra's attention, a...

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened:  November 2016 Owner:  Spencer An Previous Tenants:  Two Guys > Waldbaum's (1989-1993) > A&P (1993-2003) > Food Basics (2003-2015) Cooperative:  none Location:  1425 Kennedy Blvd, North Bergen, NJ Photographed:  December 12, 2025 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted in November 2016, but was rewritten with new photos in January 2026. Now for the post! On the site of what had previously been a Two Guys department store, A&P built a 56,000 square foot supermarket in the late 1980s and it opened in 1989 under the Waldbaum's brand as part of a pilot to introduce the New York-based brand to a New Jersey market. It didn't quite catch on, and A&P converted this and the other New Jersey Waldbaum's to A&P stores in 1993. Here in North Bergen -- a mile west of the Lincoln Tunnel and just north of Jersey City -- A&P didn't seem to stick either, and in 2003, the chain actually reduced ...