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Update: Food Bazaar Supermarkets!

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: 2007 Owner:  Spencer An Previous Tenants:  Edwards (1990s-2001) > Super G (2001-2005) Cooperative:  none Location:  635 S Clinton Ave, Chambersburg, Trenton, NJ Photographed:  February 12, 2025 Let's check out some newly-renovated Food Bazaars! I'm a little late to the Trenton party -- the store held its grand reopening last summer, around the time that the Junius Street store in Brownsville, Brooklyn did. Junius Street received a floor-to-ceiling renovation (I've visited and photographed, but not yet posted, that store. It's quite nice), but Trenton got more of a lighter cosmetic-only remodel. To be fair, it was in pretty good shape before the renovation, and you can see it here . The store being fully decked out for Valentine's Day when I visited helps distract from the simpler version of this decor package, which is very beige. (Compare to a deluxe version here .) Still, it's nice and the renovation has brought some other c...

TOUR: ShopRite - Warminster, PA

ShopRite of Warminster Owner: Deborah Cowhey Opened:  2001 Previous Tenants:  Super G > Shop & Save Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  942 W Street Rd, Warminster, PA Photographed:  December 28, 2021 Welcome to our second Warminster store, following yesterday's quick look at the GIANT next door. This store is just slightly larger than the GIANT, coming in at around 70,000 square feet. There's a lot interesting about this store, so it'll be a fun tour. First thing of note is that the store was constructed as a Super G (owned by the Maryland-based Giant Food chain) in the late 90s. In 1998, when the two Giants were united under Ahold ownership, this store was divested with Supervalu buying it and converting it to Shop & Save. Shop & Save, in turn, sold to an independent businessman in 2001. Joe Cowhey, the owner, joined Wakefern and opened the store as a ShopRite towards the end of that year. In fact, Cowhey himself recently died , and ...