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TOUR: LIDL - Park Ridge, NJ

LIDL Opened: 2020 Previous Tenants:  A&P > ACME Markets Location:  199 Kinderkamack Rd, Park Ridge, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 It's time for our first LIDL store tour! LIDL entered the United States in 2017 and has been moving into quite a few vacant supermarket spaces. It's a little bit like ALDI, except completely unappealing and much worse. Ahem, journalistic integrity tells me I should actually describe the chain so I'm going to go with "larger format stores than ALDI, a weaker private label program, in-store bakeries, and a larger selection of nonfoods." Anyway, I didn't even realize this store had been taken over by LIDL when I visited; it was a centennial model A&P that had been extensively remodeled and expanded over the years by A&P, then taken over by ACME in 2015 and closed three years later. Inside and outside (at least in the front), there's absolutely nothing left over from either of the former tenants. There's actually s...