The Market Report

I hope you're having a great weekend, and happy June! Similar to what I did ( twice ) in May, here's a roundup of some recent supermarket news, focused on the things I've been able to get out and see myself. (By the way, I report a lot of this as I learn about it on my X/Twitter page , if you don't already follow me there.) In alphabetical order... ACME Markets Old Bridge, NJ The ACME in Old Bridge, NJ has gotten a renovation, but it's clearly struggling. Read more here . Amazon Fresh Parlin, NJ A fully constructed Amazon Fresh is sitting vacant in Parlin, 39,000 square feet formerly occupied by Modell's Sporting Goods. Work stalled as far back as about a year and a half ago , but the store looks ready to open any day now -- minus the sign, of course. The sign was installed and subsequently removed in Woodland Park. Up in Connecticut, a Big Y opened in an acquired (never opened) Amazon Fresh. Here in Parlin, the strip mall also has an Indian grocer called Bh...

Stew Leonard's Farm Fresh Foods Opened: May 17, 2024 Owner:  Stew Leonard, Jr. Previous Tenants:  ACME Markets (2004-2015) > Seasons Supermarket (2016-2023) Cooperative:  none Location:  467 Allwood Rd, Clifton, NJ Photographed:  May 22, 2024 Stew Leonard's has opened its second New Jersey location! (The first, in Paramus , opened in 2019.) The Guinness World Record holder for the world's largest dairy store has impressively transformed the 54,000 square foot former ACME, later Seasons , a kosher supermarket, at Styertowne Center. The finishing touches were still being put on the building's silo -- visible from nearby route 3, an east-west artery and approach to the Lincoln Tunnel -- when I visited a few days after the store opened. There were a few other details to work out following the store's opening, such as a few signs around the property that still advertised Seasons Supermarket. But Seasons is gone from here, so let's see what Stew Leonard's has ...

Stew Leonard's Farm Fresh Foods Owner: Stew Leonard, Jr Opened:  2007 Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  3475 Berlin Tpk, Newington, CT Photographed:  November 22, 2022 Welcome to a really terrible post about the Stew Leonard's in Newington! The store, which opened in 2007 and sprawls over 100,000 square feet, looks much like the Paramus location inside although it's older and larger. You can see plenty of pictures inside and outside on Google Maps . These days, Stew Leonard's has seven locations with one more on the way in Clifton, NJ in the former Seasons Supermarket . Newington is about eight miles outside of Hartford, and we'll be in Hartford in just a few days! First, we're going to look at another store just outside of Hartford in West Hartford, right here on The Market Report!