The Market Report

Super Supermarket Opened:  ca. 2014 Owner:  Ali Abtala Previous Tenants:  Bilal Superfood (open by 2000) > Associated (closed ca. 2014) Cooperative:  General Trading/Retail Grocers Group Location:  5208 Palisade Ave, West New York, NJ Photographed:  October 27, 2024 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted on March 26, 2018, but was rewritten with new photos in March 2026. Now for the post! What makes a supermarket a Super Supermarket? Actually, that's up for debate. In fact, a recent lawsuit centered around the fact that the name "Super Supermarket" was too generic to have much trade value. So as a result, New Jersey has at least three different operators who use the name Super Supermarket. Other than the fact that they're all supplied by the same wholesaler, they have nothing in common. The West New York location here shares ownership with one in Elizabeth , while locations in Orange, Paterson, and Haledon share ownership but on...

La Placita Supermarket Opened:  ca. 2015 Owner:  Wilson Narvaez Previous Tenants:  CTown Supermarkets (1990s) > Kikos Supermarket (closed ca. 2015) Cooperative:  Krasdale Foods Location:  152 48th St, Union City, NJ Photographed:  October 27, 2024 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted on March 30, 2018, but was rewritten with new photos in March 2026. From the original post: March has been an all-Hudson County month! In the past month, we've covered fifteen stores in one way or another, not including today's tour. Today's tour, La Placita Food Market, is very different from most of the others we've seen so far. And it's also our first in Union City, the last of the three cities I visited! La Placita is a small Krasdale-affiliated chain with locations in Peekskill (sorry about the formatting, I don't know what happened there),  Mount Vernon , and Port Chester in New York, plus Bethel in CT. (A handful of other independents ...

Key Food Marketplace Opened: March 20, 2026 Owner:  Yousef Siad / Raied Zahriyeh Previous Tenants:  A&P > Foodtown > Rite Aid Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  50-15 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, NY Photographed:  March 20, 2026 A comment on a recent post about a Rite Aid converted to a supermarket pointed out that these Rite Aid buildings are the modern-day equivalent of the centennial A&P -- so many remain, but they're largely repurposed for a variety of other uses (thanks, Chris P !). I love that analogy. Now let's take it one step further: this new supermarket in Woodside, Queens is remarkably both a former centennial A&P and  a former Rite Aid, though you wouldn't know about the A&P past just from a look. The centennial facade is still there behind this newer Rite Aid facade, though. Here's something else interesting: this was actually still a supermarket until rather recently. Although A&P opened here in the 1960s, se...