The Market Report

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: 2007 Owner:  Spencer An Previous Tenants:  Edwards (1990s-2001) > Super G (2001-2005) Cooperative:  none Location:  635 S Clinton Ave, Chambersburg, Trenton, NJ Photographed:  February 12, 2025 Let's check out some newly-renovated Food Bazaars! I'm a little late to the Trenton party -- the store held its grand reopening last summer, around the time that the Junius Street store in Brownsville, Brooklyn did. Junius Street received a floor-to-ceiling renovation (I've visited and photographed, but not yet posted, that store. It's quite nice), but Trenton got more of a lighter cosmetic-only remodel. To be fair, it was in pretty good shape before the renovation, and you can see it here . The store being fully decked out for Valentine's Day when I visited helps distract from the simpler version of this decor package, which is very beige. (Compare to a deluxe version here .) Still, it's nice and the renovation has brought some other c...

Supreme Food Market Owner: Eddie Trujillo Opened:  ca. 2006 Previous Tenants:  ACME Markets (1967-1992) > Shop n Bag (1992-??) > Lalor Market > IGA (closed 2005/06) Cooperative:  none Location:  410 Lalor St, Chestnut Park, Trenton, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 It's time for our final Trenton store tour! (As I mentioned, there are also two Compare Foods in town that we unfortunately won't be seeing. Otherwise, we've seen all the supermarkets in Trenton.) Our first stop in town was a former pitched-roof ACME that went through a lot of different banners before becoming a Supreme Shop n Bag and then closing. Now, that store's timeline is nearly identical to this store's timeline , which makes me think perhaps these two stores were frequently bought and sold as package deals when they repeatedly changed hands. This store has now been Supreme (aka Supremo in northern NJ) for over 15 years. Worth noting that this is currently the only Supreme, as even the...

Food Bazaar Supermarket Owner: Spencer An Opened:  2007 Previous Tenants:  Edwards (1990s-2001) > Super G (2001-2005) Cooperative:  none Location:  635 S Clinton Ave, Chambersburg, Trenton, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 It's been a while, but it's time again for another Food Bazaar tour! I am very sad to say that this will be the last Food Bazaar we see since of their 29 stores (+1 coming soon in Harlem), we've toured all 21 that I've photographed. This store may have been opened in the late 1980s or early 1990s as a Foodtown, presumably Mayfair, or if not it was opened between 1995 and 2001 as an Edwards. (The whole complex, I believe, was built as industrial space and was converted to retail when the supermarket opened.) In 2001, Edwards switched to Super G , and in 2005, all of the Super G stores were either closed or converted to Stop & Shop. This store was closed and in late 2007, Food Bazaar opened up in this space. It appears that Food Bazaar, co...