The Market Report

Original Tenant:  Michas Brothers Foodtown Address: 350 N Main St, Wharton, NJ Opened:  unknown Closed:  unknown Later Tenants:  subdivided - Wharton Farm Market & Rite Aid > Walgreens Photographed:  July 2020 Interesting stuff here in Wharton just north of route 80, and we saw the ShopRite just south of route 80 yesterday. This 25,000 square foot anchor to the Wharton Mall was constructed probably in the 1970s by the Michas Brothers, later Manyfoods, whose other stores we saw a while back also. Probably when Manyfoods went out of business around 2003, this store would've been closed (and also not sold, likely hurting from the new nearby ShopRite). Looks like I scared off those two cars who were in the first picture. Anyway, around that time the Foodtown was cut in half, with Rite Aid (now Walgreens) taking the right half and a farmers market taking the left half. There isn't much left from Foodtown, but the Wharton Farm Market (aka the Wharton Farm Pro...

ShopRite of Wharton Owner: Irv Glass / Glass Gardens Opened: 2001 Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  315 NJ-15, Wharton, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 A few days ago we saw an update at the ShopRite of Rockaway out on 46 just east of Dover. Today we are going just north of Dover where 15 and 80 intersect, a whopping two miles from the Rockaway ShopRite, to visit the Wharton ShopRite. It's a bit newer than Rockaway, with construction finishing in 2001. We also know the age because of the older and newer logos seen around the store... ...and at nearly 90,000 square feet, it's a giant of a store, eventually putting the nearby Rockaway ACME out of business. The corner entrance is a lot like Rochelle Park , although this store was more intentionally built that way instead of evolving over time. The layout is much like Rockaway, with the entrance bringing us in through a hallway past the liquor store, Dunkin' Donuts, pharmacy, customer ser...