The Market Report

The Fresh Grocer Opened: February 13, 2026 Owner:  Inserra Supermarkets Previous Tenants:  assorted non-grocery tenants Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  523 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY Photographed:  February 18, 2026 Downtown Brooklyn is the new grocery hotspot. ALDI and LIDL have each recently opened new stores, joining a number of existing stores including a Trader Joe's opened in 2017 and several independents. Now, Inserra Supermarkets -- which runs ShopRite , Price Rite , and The Fresh Grocer stores in northeastern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York -- has joined the fray, opening an 18,000 square foot Fresh Grocer in a basement just diagonally across the street from the LIDL. Although the LIDL is a no-frills discount store, it's actually quite a bit larger than this store at 30,000 square feet. The extremely low-profile storefront is easy to miss on busy Fulton Street, but it belies the extensive full-service supermarket tucked away ...

The Fresh Grocer Opened: November 8, 2024 Owner:  Inserra family Previous Tenants:  Grand Union (1972-2001) > Stop & Shop (2001-2024) Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  130 Skyline Dr, Ringwood, NJ Photographed:  November 8, 2024 Of the 32 Stop & Shop stores that closed this fall, several already have new tenants. Four of them are now Food Bazaars, and one is slated to become an Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace. But a sixth location is already reopened, this one under the banner The Fresh Grocer owned by Inserra Supermarkets! The 29,000 square foot store was constructed in 1972 as a Grand Union, later becoming a Stop & Shop in 2001 (tour the Stop & Shop here ). Ringwood is a bit remote, so losing the only supermarket in town was a pretty big deal. And that's why it was good news that Inserra Supermarkets, which owns around 30 ShopRites and Price Rites in NJ and NY, moved in. Stop & Shop closed on October 10, and after about a month...