The Market Report

ShopRite of Cherrywood Plaza Owner: David Zallie / Zallie Family Markets Opened: December 2025 Previous Tenants: Kmart Location: 1468 Blackwood-Clementon Rd, Clementon, NJ Photographed: June 5, 2026 Welcome to Clementon! I rarely get this far south in New Jersey -- we're about 30 miles east of Wilmington here, and almost 100 miles from the area where I live so this isn't a frequent destination of mine. But when I do get the chance to make it down here, I get to see some really interesting stores, including the new H Mart in Cherry Hill and this store, the spectacular new ShopRite of Cherrywood Plaza! Okay, spectacular except for one thing: who approved the lettering on that sign? No, the S isn't falling down, it was simply installed wrong before opening. Here's what the lettering is supposed to look like. With that gripe out of the way, let's take an extensive tour of what must be one of the best ShopRites I've ever been to. This 85,000 square foot store...

ShopRite of East Orange Opened: May 27, 2026 Owner: Sumas family/Village Super Market Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 533 Main St, East Orange, NJ Photographed: May 27, 2026 It's not all that often that I get to post about a brand-new ShopRite, so today is an exciting day. It's especially exciting because Village Super Market has replaced the tired old store at Brick Church Plaza with a truly impressive new-build one on the same property. This is the latest development in a multi-year project to reuse a large lot right at the Brick Church train station in downtown East Orange. Since the late 1980s, it's held a fairly unremarkable strip mall anchored by a ShopRite. Now, a new development has brought a higher-rise building complete with a new supermarket on the ground floor. You can see the store in progress in 2024 here , and tour the previous ShopRite here . Although the new supermarket has been in the planning and construction phases...