The Market Report

Seabra's Market Opened:  February 27, 2025 Owner:  Jose Seabra Previous Tenants:  Food Fair > Drug Fair > Walgreens Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  2617 CR-516, Old Bridge, NJ Photographed:  February 28, 2025 It's time for a trip back to Old Bridge, where a very short-lived SuperFresh opened in June 2024 and closed in October of the same year. It was an independent member of Key Food Stores (and, as far as I can tell, its owners didn't own any other supermarkets), so when the store closed, it appeared to have been sold within Key Food. Seabra's Market, a longtime Portuguese supermarket chain with locations in Union , Newark, and Elizabeth, took over the 25,000 square foot space and renovated it lightly before opening on Thursday. Keep in mind that the store was essentially brand-new -- not even a year old -- when Seabra's opened up, so there wasn't a whole lot they needed to do to the building. Still, there's one notable change: Seabra's ...

Seabra's Market Owner: Jose Seabra Opened:  2018 Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1350 Galloping Hill Rd, Union, NJ Photographed:  July 29, 2022 We are returning to the Seabra's Market at Five Points in Union , which is a former A&P, later Foodtown and Food King before being purchased by A Seabra Foods, which in turn rebranded to Seabra's Market in 2018. The store has been shuffled around a little, and there are a few indications that Seabra's might be finding the 30,500 square foot store a bit large for them. Their other large store is the Lafayette Street location in the Ironbound, which with its various extensions and expansions comes in right around 30,000 square feet too. But that store is in the Ironbound, with a dense urban surrounding and a very large Portuguese population. The other big change to report on here at Union is that the Union and Elizabeth locations of Seabra's Market are now affiliated with Key Food, no longer Associated Supermark...

Just about half a mile north of yesterday's Seabra Foods is today's Seabra's Market. While Seabra Foods is unaffiliated, Seabra's Market (formerly A Seabra Foods) is a member of the Associated Supermarket Group and uses a similar circular to the generic Met Foodmarkets one. The storefront logo has since been switched to Seabra's Market . Sorry for the blurry shot. While I really like this ceiling over the produce department, it has been removed in a limited interior renovation, which probably coincided with the switch to Seabra's Market in approximately the spring of 2018. Here's a look at the new decor. Plenty of greens! They must have a lot of turnover here to move these piles of vegetables before they go bad. And who doesn't need $73 worth of octopus? The seafood department is quite large, and is located in the rear of the first aisle. Although it's hard to see here, it actually continues behind the freezer cases to the right d...