The Market Report

Original Tenant:  A&P Address:  1491 NJ-23, Wayne, NJ Opened:  1960s Closed:  unknown Later Tenants:  unknown Photographed:  August 2019 We saw the former A&P and its replacement up in the Preakness section of Wayne, today's snapshot is one of the other former A&Ps in Wayne, in the Packanack section. There are at least four -- these three, plus a former Futurestore between the the Preakness and Packanack locations which was likely a replacement for the two older stores. The 17,000 square foot store here was expanded, likely by a later tenant, to 23,500 square feet. I photographed it from the parking lot of the Packanack Wayne Shopping Center directly across the street, which is anchored by a Foodtown residing in a former barrel-roof Food Fair. That wraps up Wayne! Now unfortunately there's no geographically elegant way to do this, so we're just gonna hop across most of Passaic County out to Midland Park in Bergen County, t...

Super Foodtown of Wayne Owner:  Jack Shakoor / Jack's Supermarkets Opened: ca. 2000-05 Previous Tenants:  Food Fair > Rag Shop > Leeward's > Michaels Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  1466 NJ-23, Wayne, NJ Photographed:  August 2019 and July 2020 This is one of those stores I've driven by a million times but never actually went in until I set my mind to it, visiting maybe two dozen stores in Bergen and Passaic counties in the summer of 2019. I don't know why, but I never found myself here before. Anyway, the 21,000 square foot store has been recently expanded into a neighboring storefront. I returned almost a year later to see the progress on the store, and for whatever reason I had assumed this expansion was going to be the deli department. That's not true. 2019 This is the storefront, just to the right of the Foodtown, which has been expanded into. 2020 For a little history on this store, it was bui...