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: ACME Markets Address: 125 Bound Brook Rd, Middlesex, NJ Opened:  1955 Closed:  February 2022 Later Tenants:  vacant Photographed:  March 2022 Our second former ACME of the day (see Morris Plains here ) is the most recently-closed ACME, and also one of the longest-running ones, having opened in 1955. It then closed in February 2022. We toured the store ourselves a while back, and now we're back to see how it's looking post-closure. Not much going on here at Middlesex, although we will see the store has been cleared out. I'm interested in whether this store will be seeing any new grocery tenants coming in. Middlesex is certainly an opportunity for another grocer, with little competition around. Our closest competitor is the Tropical Supermarket half a mile northeast in Dunellen with SuperFood Fresh a mile and a half southwest here in Middlesex. Tropical is a pleasant but small store, and SuperFood is excellent if a bit expensive. Middlesex is also...

SuperFresh Owner: Howard Lee / Food World Supermarkets Opened:  2017 Previous Tenants:  Food Fair > Pantry Pride > Foodtown > Food King > A Seabra Foods Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  550 Raritan Rd, Roselle, NJ Photographed:  March 2022 Some signs of life are starting to appear at the Roselle SuperFresh, which remains closed after storm damage in September 2019. While the store isn't exactly ready to reopen, there is some slight progress. No change really on the outside, although again there is an indication that the store will in fact be reopening: you'll see a number of yellow signs around the building directing people to a mailbox in the back which was not there last time. One thing we also skipped last time: a look inside the deli-bakery room. As we'll see, a lot of the fixtures have been removed. There's also signs of construction, such as the ceiling having been removed. While it may mean that there's more extensive renovation bein...