The Market Report

The Fresh Grocer Owner:  David Maniaci / Nicholas Markets Opened:  2020 as The Fresh Grocer Previous Tenants:  A&P > Nicholas Foodtown Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  1068 High Mountain Rd, North Haledon, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 Can you believe that behind that facade is a Centennial A&P? Though I can't find the picture right now, it still looked like that when Nicholas Markets took over the store in the 1980s. It was a Foodtown from then until 2020, when it was officially converted from Foodtown to The Fresh Grocer. And if the store looks familiar, that's because we saw it back when it was a Foodtown in 2017. Because we've already had an extensive tour and the store doesn't look all that different on the inside, we're keeping this Look Inside fairly short. The store remains absolutely gorgeous on the inside and the outside. Notice the ShopRite-style seafood price signage and decals on the case w...

Welcome to Foodtown Castle! Okay, not quite, but this sure doesn't look like a Foodtown from the outside. We're here in the affluent, suburban Bergen County town of North Haledon, NJ, a few towns north of Paterson. This is a Nicholas Markets store. Their other locations include Cedar Grove, NJ ; Washington, NJ (a former A&P which when I visited was pretty desolate); and Colonia, NJ (a former Food Circus-owned Foodtown). Nicholas Markets started when M. Nicholas Maniaci opened his first grocery store in the city of Paterson in 1943; as the Italian population moved out of Paterson and into the suburbs, Nicholas Markets closed their stores in Paterson and Haledon (although they still own the liquor store next door); North Haledon and Cedar Grove are longer-standing stores while Colonia opened under Nicholas ownership around 2013 and Washington in 2015. North Haledon is the flagship store for Nicholas, and it's beautiful. It's very upscale but the prices are...