The Market Report

ShopRite Opened: 1954 Owner:  LoCurcio Family Markets Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  437 Franklin Ave, Nutley, NJ Photographed:  June 5, 2025 In addition to a look at the new Hillside SuperFresh, I've got two more awesome ShopRite remodels to show you. Several ShopRite operators have really been giving their all for new stores and renovations lately, and these are absolutely top-of-the-line stores. See Watchung  and  Rochelle Park , among many others, for example. Here in Nutley, we're back to check out the completed -- and extremely impressive -- remodel after seeing it almost  done back in November. When I visited in November, the decor was almost fully installed, but all the finishing touches weren't up yet. If you compare these pictures to the ones linked above, you can see there's some text and accents that hadn't yet been installed. That's true in the pharmacy, which now has some fun vines. Unfortunate...

ShopRite Opened: 1954 Owner:  LoCurcio Family Markets Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  437 Franklin Ave, Nutley, NJ Photographed:  November 8, 2024 Welcome to the ShopRite of Nutley! This store dates back to 1954 when it opened as the Park Fruit & Vegetable Market here in downtown Nutley, and over time, the store expanded and eventually joined Wakefern. Today, it's around 50,000 square feet, comprising more expansions than I can even count. And although it's always been an extremely well-run store, in my opinion notably better than other area ShopRites owned by other members, it hasn't been exactly state-of-the-art in a long time. The store recently completed a major renovation -- its grand reopening is today, in face -- and I visited the store on Friday as the finishing touches were being put on. It's truly an impressive transformation of the store. I first photographed the Nutley ShopRite back in 2021, when it was a nic...