The Market Report

ShopRite of Sparta Owner: Dominick & David Romano / RoNetco Supermarkets Opened:  2019 Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  18 N Village Rd, Sparta, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 Our second stop in Sparta is the new-build RoNetco ShopRite, with construction finishing in 2019 on the 80,000 square foot-plus store. There's also a RoNetco liquor store attached to the supermarket, and combined the footprint takes up 100,000 square feet of a new development that also includes other small retail and some new-build residential. This store is just north of the Stop & Shop . We enter more or less in the middle of this giant storefront, turning right to move into the grand aisle with a cafe on the front wall, produce on the right side, deli/prepared foods on the left side, and bakery/seafood at the back. Pharmacy is in an island at the front of the first aisle, with meat on the back wall and dairy/frozen on the left side. Notice that ...

Stop & Shop Opened: ca. 2011 Previous Tenants:  none Location:  5 Town Center Dr, Sparta, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 Our first store here in Sussex County is a 70,000 square foot Stop & Shop which replaced around 2011-12 a former Grand Union at half this size just half a mile away. Acme Style has a few shots of that store in their 2010 post about the former ACME in town. This was a new build store and is honestly rather attractive. That's a good thing, because in 2019 one of the most gorgeous ShopRites I've ever been to opened just to the north . The grand aisle features produce on the left side, with deli and bakery on the right. Meat and seafood line the  back wall, with dairy/frozen on the left side of the store and pharmacy/HABA in the front left corner. This store seems to have more of a color variation than some others, likely because the floor and ceiling are darker. I do love the skylights as well. Produce and then on to meat/seafood in the back o...