The Market Report

Original Tenant: A&P Address: 1938 Union Valley Rd, Hewitt, West Milford, NJ Opened:  late 1990s Closed:  2015 Later Tenants:  Highland's Market by Shopwell (October 2020-April 2022) Photographed:  July 2022 After 19 months, the Highland's Market of Hewitt, NJ closed in April. The store, which replaced a closed A&P, opened in October 2020. The store, which was affiliated with the Associated Supermarket Group, was perfectly adequate but had some execution issues. You can see my original tour here . I wondered in that post whether it would have a longer life than owner Nick Nasser's previous attempts in Elizabeth (two years) and Middlesex (five months). Well, it was right in the middle of those two. Nasser has since announced another Shopwell (also sometimes called Shop Well or some other variation thereof) for Budd Lake, about 32 miles southwest of this location as the crow flies. Obviously I can't predict the future, but I can't imagine that store having ...

ShopRite of West Milford Owner:  Inserra Supermarkets Opened:  1968 Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  23 Marshall Hill Rd, West Milford, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 The 72,000 square foot ShopRite of West Milford is well known for how it used to look , which I mentioned back in New City . The original building appears to be around 40,000 square feet, which actually feels a bit large for a store opening in 1968 so it may have been expanded even earlier. A total renovation over the course of several years modernized the store and totally changed the way it looked and functioned, moving the grand aisle from the left side of the store to the right side. Today, the grand aisle features produce along the left side with bakery, deli, and prepared foods on the right and seafood at the back. Meats continue along the back wall with natural foods in the first aisle, and HABA, frozen, and dairy on the left side of...

Original Tenant:  A&P Address:  1926 Union Valley Rd, Hewitt, NJ Opened:  1960s Closed:  1990s Later Tenants:  Tractor Supply Co. Photographed:  July 2020 Our first of several hundred stores in New Jersey is this store which I believe is a former A&P in the Hewitt section of West Milford. I could be wrong, but I think this store was the original store which was replaced in the 1990s by a 50,000 square foot A&P at the other end of the strip mall. That store closed in 2016, and we'll be taking a look at its replacement tomorrow on The Independent Edition !