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TOUR: Superfresh, Glen Rock, NJ

Glen Rock, NJ, is one of those towns right where a very high income area (to the north) meets a very low income area (to the south, including Paterson). This store seems to be stuck in the middle, and has been switched back and forth many times. The store was built as an A&P... Photo from GUman on Acme Style . By the early 1980s, it was converted to Food Bazaar (no relation to Food Bazaar ), a short-lived upscale A&P store concept. When A&P bought The Food Emporium from Daitch Shopwell in the late 80s, The Food Emporium became A&P's upscale banner in place of Food Bazaar (allowing the current Food Bazaar to use that name). The store was, at this point, converted back to an A&P Foodmarket - a standard middle-market grocery store - which closed soon after, leaving the space vacant for a few years. Photo from GUman on Acme Style . By 2002, A&P decided to pull customers from the lower-income neighborhoods south of this store, and likely still held th...