The Market Report

Super Supermarket Opened: 2008 under current ownership Owner:  Antonio Perez Previous Tenants:  Food Fair > Nicholas Markets Foodtown Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  408 Haledon Ave, Haledon, NJ Photographed:  November 8, 2024 It's been a while since we've seen a Super Supermarket! The small chain has locations in Orange , Newark , Paterson , and Haledon. It looks like an unrelated, independent operator has additional locations in Elizabeth and West New York . Here in Haledon, the roughly 28,000 square foot store has recently completed a remodel. Check it out before the renovation with my 2020 photos here . The remodel was mostly cosmetic, although some bigger things were updated, too. The lighting, for instance, was replaced in the whole store, and a small seating area was added to the deli/hot food area. The new decor looks great, although the store still feels pretty old. Still, it's looking much better than it was. The flooring has been rem...

The Fresh Grocer of Colonia Owner: David Maniaci / Nicholas Markets Opened:  2020 Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop > Circus Foodtown > Nicholas Foodtown Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  510 Inman Ave, Colonia, NJ Photographed:  December 2021 It's time to check out the awesome remodel at The Fresh Grocer of Colonia, which is finished! The store held its official grand reopening a few months ago, and we most recently saw it in progress in July 2021 . You can also see the "before" pictures there. Today, we enter the totally redone store to the sushi and sandwich counters, which face the entrance. Deli/prepared foods take up the aisle to the right, with produce and seafood in the aisle to the left. A butcher on the back wall faces a cheese counter in the deli island, with frozen foods in the first grocery aisle. Meat and then dairy lines the back wall, with dairy also in the last aisle and bakery in the front right corner. These renovations make...

The Fresh Grocer of Colonia Owner: David Maniaci / Nicholas Markets Opened:  2020 Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop > Circus Foodtown > Nicholas Foodtown Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 510 Inman Ave, Colonia, NJ Photographed:  June 2020 and July 2021 The fourth and final Nicholas Markets store that we haven't seen yet is here in Woodbridge, in the Colonia section. We've previously seen their Washington , North Haledon , and Cedar Grove locations in their Foodtown and Fresh Grocer incarnations. Unfortunately, I didn't get to photograph this store before its conversion to The Fresh Grocer, but this was the first Nicholas Markets store to convert back in February. Nicholas Markets acquired this store in 2015 from Food Circus (later Circus Fresh Foods), which owns other Foodtown stores to the south, in Monmouth and Ocean counties. They've been struggling for many years now, as has Foodtown in New Jersey in general, but some stores are still hanging ...