The Market Report

Bishop's Supermarket Owner: Bill Bishop Opened:  1989 in current location Cooperative:  IGA (Retail Marketing Group) Location:  431 US-22, Whitehouse Station, Readington, NJ Photographed:  August 6, 2022 We return to Bishop's Supermarket in Readington, an exceptionally well-run independent store on route 22 about 30 miles west of Newark. This was my third time returning to the store, and each time I liked the store a little bit better. I did a full shopping here in August and was thoroughly impressed with the selection and quality. Here's my original tour. We see a reset here in the produce department, and generally around the perimeter. There's new flooring and fixtures, with the cases on the left side having been painted and the right side cases having been replaced. Note that the new cases on the right have doors. The only strange thing was that the track lighting on the ceiling here is not functional, and I'm not sure why. Then again, if you look at my 2020 pi...

Kings Food Markets Opened: 1997 Previous Tenants:  A&P (early 1980s-mid 1990s) Location:  531 US-22, Whitehouse Station, NJ Photographed:  March 2020 and December 2021 We've come to our final Kings location in New Jersey, and the second-to-last that we haven't seen yet! (The last is Greenwich, CT, which at the time of writing I sadly do not have photographed.) This store has an interesting history, which I've pieced together with available information and aerial photographs. JoshAustin610 says that this building opened as an A&P in the 60s, becoming a Kings in the 80s. Unfortunately, both of those claims are a bit suspect given that the strip mall doesn't appear in aerial photographs until 1984, when it looks newly constructed. It was almost definitely constructed as an A&P at that time. The strip mall was expanded to its current layout between 1997 and 2002, likely on the earlier end of that spectrum, and that was immediately following Kings' opening,...