The Market Report

Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace Owner: Philip DelPrete Opened:  February 2022 Previous Tenants:  Village ShopRite (1964-1982 & 1983-2013) Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location:  1711 NJ-10, Morris Plains, NJ Photographed:  March 2022 For the biggest and most exciting post of the day, we arrive at the brand-new Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace of Morris Plains! Much like their first NJ location, up in Ramsey , along with their others in New York, the Morris Plains store is truly an amusement park of Italian food, but it's also a great supermarket. By the way, you'll notice that last time, I posted Uncle G on The Independent Edition, where I typically feature independent stores and chains under 6-8 locations. By now, Uncle G is a fast-growing 10-location chain with at least one more on the way -- which they haven't actually announced yet, but it's coming nonetheless to the former ACME/A&P in Tinton Falls . (See here .) Uncle G has moved the main ent...

Original Tenant:  Village ShopRite Address: 1711 NJ-10, Morris Plains, NJ Opened: 1964 Closed: 2013 Later Tenants: Uncle Giuseppe's (renovations began 2021) Photographed: June 2020 It's amazing that this Village ShopRite lasted all the way to 2013! Not so much that it was small, at over 40,000 square feet, but simply that it was outdated and wasn't renovated after the late 1970s, when Village gave it its last overhaul. It was replaced by the Cedar Knolls location , which was newly built closer to downtown Morristown and off NJ-10 -- notably moving farther away from the Morris Plains Stop & Shop , and much closer to the Morris Plains ACME . Acme Style captured the store soon before its closure, which you can see here (along with their coverage of the new location and the Stop & Shop). Here's what the store looked like after ShopRite's closure. The store had been cleaned out with an auction of the fixtures as you can see in the poster in the first pictu...