The Market Report

Fine Fare Supermarkets Opened: 2010 Owner: Ramon Urena Previous Tenants: A&P (1940s-late 1970s) > Met Foodmarkets (opened ca. late 1970s) > Super Supermarket (ca. mid-1990s - 2010) Cooperative: Retail Grocers Group/General Trading Location: 426 33rd St, Union City, NJ Photographed: March 6, 2026 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted on April 11, 2018, but was rewritten with new photos in September 2026. Now for the post! Okay, let's get back in that early-2018 mindset for a second. The Market Report wasn't even called The Market Report yet, as the blog was still NJ Supermarkets. And I was deep in posting my visits to around two dozen grocery stores in the West New York - Union City - North Bergen area. In fact, I even made a map of all the stores we were going to back then... So generally, we visited these stores from north to south, ending here at the 33rd Street Fine Fare. As you can see, this store is very close to both the City Fresh M...

La Placita Supermarket Opened:  ca. 2015 Owner:  Wilson Narvaez Previous Tenants:  CTown Supermarkets (1990s) > Kikos Supermarket (closed ca. 2015) Cooperative:  Krasdale Foods Location:  152 48th St, Union City, NJ Photographed:  October 27, 2024 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted on March 30, 2018, but was rewritten with new photos in March 2026. From the original post: March has been an all-Hudson County month! In the past month, we've covered fifteen stores in one way or another, not including today's tour. Today's tour, La Placita Food Market, is very different from most of the others we've seen so far. And it's also our first in Union City, the last of the three cities I visited! La Placita is a small Krasdale-affiliated chain with locations in Peekskill (sorry about the formatting, I don't know what happened there),  Mount Vernon , and Port Chester in New York, plus Bethel in CT. (A handful of other independents ...

Fine Fare Supermarkets Owner: Hammad Siyam Opened:  1987 Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  601 4th St, Union City, NJ Photographed:  December 2020 This 12,000 square foot Fine Fare is a pretty substantial neighborhood supermarket for this part of Union City. We're at the far southern tip of Union City here, with the rest of the stores we saw in Union City up to the north of route 495. We're also just blocks from the Jersey City border. I know that this Fine Fare opened under its current ownership in 1987, but I'm not sure what it was before that -- the building has almost definitely been a supermarket for its entire life. As we can see, it's clearly a popular spot for food shopping. Produce lines both sides of the first aisle, with meat and deli on the back wall and dairy in the last aisle. Frozen is in the middle of the store, and the front right corner of the store was closed off in preparation for a pharmacy that was to...