The Market Report

Nature's Food Markets Opened: May 3, 2024 Owner:  Heddy Tabet Previous Tenants:  A&P (mid-1990s-2015) > Shop Fresh Marketplace (Mar 2023-Sep 2023) Cooperative:  INFRA Location:  7 Naughright Rd, Hackettstown, NJ Photographed:  May 10, 2024 One more special report today! (If you're reading these in the reverse order I posted them, welcome to Saturday's post, there will be more coming your way. Here's the full list. ) But anyway, this is the last store I visited yesterday. Like the Food Universe in Passaic , this store held its opening on May 3, but it's not fully open just yet. The 40,000 square foot store is located in part of a former A&P , which opened in March 2023  as Shop Fresh Marketplace and closed in September 2023. ( Here's my post from June 2023.) Shop Fresh was affiliated with Great Valu Markets , but they lost their affiliation shortly after their opening. In early 2024, it was announced that the owners of New York-based A Matter of...

Shop Fresh Marketplace Owner: Nick Nasser Opened:  March 3, 2023 Cooperative:  Great Valu Markets Location:  7 Naughright Rd, Hackettstown, NJ Photographed:  June 13, 2023 We return to Shop Fresh Marketplace of Hackettstown, which opened in March in a former A&P on route 46 just outside of the town. In fact, I attended the soft opening on its first day in business, March 3rd. An official ribbon-cutting was later held on April 1st. I returned to the store on June 13th to find the store well on its way to going out of business. Think I'm exaggerating? I was one of two customers in the store and found the shelves mostly empty... While the store is still very attractive, it is also clearly soon to close. Social media posts as far back as late April show shelves beginning to empty out, and clearly that process has only continued. Most of the service departments have closed, too, leaving only the deli in operation. All the prepared foods are gone... ...and although ...