The Market Report

Food Universe Marketplace Opened: 2023 Owner: Teofilo de Jesus Previous Tenants: Grand Union > Rite Aid Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location:  435 Lexington Ave, Clifton, NJ Photographed: September 12, 2026 Welcome back to the Clifton Food Universe! (Scroll down to the bottom of this post to see my previous update.) On that post back in June, I was wondering about the renovations here that left the layout kind of odd and the flooring all broken up. I am very pleased to report that remodeling has continued and the store is looking much better these days. In other words, this remodel ended up being much more extensive than I thought it would be. That's clear here in produce, with new display tables and refrigeration, but also a nice new floor that continues throughout the store. A juice bar, bakery, hot food bar, newly-expanded deli, and seafood line the left side wall with meat on the back wall, and dairy/frozen on the right side. Packaged baked goods are in the front-right...

Leon Marketplace Opened: September 4, 2026 Owner:  unconfirmed; possibly Zariyeh and Siad families Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location: 4901 Bergenline Ave, West New York, NJ Photographed:  September 4, 2026 We return to Leon Marketplace in West New York to see that the roughly 10,000 square foot store has opened, in fact just yesterday morning. This is the first Leon Marketplace, but it's not the first store owned by this group nor the only Leon Marketplace in the works. While I haven't been able to confirm this beyond a doubt, it looks like Leon Marketplace is connected to the Siad and Zariyeh families, who own a variety of supermarkets in New York City -- a handful of Fresh n Save Marketplaces, two Windsor Farms Markets, and a Key Food . This store is somewhat similar to that Key Food in its selection and general offerings, but has some notable differences. The selection of grab-and-go prepared foods in both stores is fairly vast for their rela...

SuperFresh Opened: October 2023 Owner: Howard Lee Previous Tenants:  ShopRite (1968-1984) > Pathmark (1984-2015) > Price Saver Fresh Marketplace (April 2019-September 2019) Cooperative: Key Food Stores Location: 242 Lincoln Blvd, Middlesex, NJ Photographed: August 5, 2026 Welcome back to the Middlesex SuperFresh! This store opened in the fall of 2023 , and around three years after its original grand opening, it's getting some work done as the store is cut back. It seems like this store never quite got to the volume it needed, though it was decent enough to keep the lights on and the doors open apparently, but it's being cut back from its original size of around 56,000 square feet to around 40,000 square feet -- still a large supermarket, but smaller than originally intended. The owners of the supermarket will open a laundromat in the remaining space along with shifting their UPS store into that area, similar to the change at the Linden SuperFresh (though that seems ...