The Market Report

Super Foodtown of Caldwell Owner: Jack Shakoor / Jack's Supermarkets Opened:  ca. 1999 Previous Tenants:  Pfitzenmeyer's Market > Hy's Foodtown (1970s-ca. 1999) Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  370 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ Photographed:  September and November 2021 Contributor:  Laura Our contributor Laura brings us a look at the Foodtown in Caldwell, photographed roughly two months ago as the new facade was just going up. My prediction on the last update was true, by the way: the new facade is being installed directly on top of all those existing signs, so chances are they'll be buried for who knows how long again! Very glad that I got to photograph them while they were exposed. Our contributor returned just a few days ago to capture the store's progress, and it's looking really good: I hope to be back to this store soon myself to check out how the remodel is going so I'll be sure to update when I do. For now, here's the oth...

Super Foodtown of Caldwell Owner: Jack Shakoor / Jack's Supermarkets Opened:  ca. 1999 Previous Tenants:  Pfitzenmeyer's Market > Hy's Foodtown (1970s-ca. 1999) Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  370 Bloomfield Ave, Caldwell, NJ Photographed:  July 2021 Can you believe that was underneath Jack's Foodtown's facade in Caldwell?! After posting my previous look at the ongoing remodel , a Twitter user tipped me off to the remants of the long-ago tenants beautifully preserved underneath the facade of the Foodtown. But I'm getting ahead of myself here. Let's review this store's history a little. The row of storefronts originally had several tenants, which are listed here . The storefront all the way to the right was Pfitzenmeyer's Market, which we see revealed in the first picture. In 1953, Hy Shulman took over the store and combined several of the storefronts into Hy's Foodtown . Hy's Foodtown closed in 1998, at the time of th...