The Market Report

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened:  December 1, 2016 Owner:  Spencer An Previous Tenants:  A&P (1993-2015) Cooperative:  none Location:  425 Anderson Ave, Fairview, NJ Photographed:  May 22, 2016 and December 4, 2016 Another new Food Bazaar! Fairview, NJ The latest from Food Bazaar's aggressive expansion opened on Thursday, December 1. It's a former 45,000-square-foot A&P Fresh Market that was extensively renovated. The A&P closed last November. Fairview's other supermarket is a Key Food Marketplace operating in a former Food Basics not too far away. The A&P Fresh Market had the first version of the "Fresh" renovation. Back in May, when I visited the Key Food, there was not much going on at this location that I could see, but the windows were all covered. The banner reading "A&P FRESH MARKET" has been removed. That section of the facade is now blank. The sign facing Anderson Ave has been replaced with a white Food Bazaa...

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I'm having trouble posting anything with pictures, for some reason, so my planned posts are going to be delayed. In the meantime, though, I'm almost done with a spreadsheet of the Associated Group stores, and I'm going to be posting on my Flickr photostream , so check there! More posts to come...

Lots of exciting stuff on the way. Because of a slight glitch I couldn't get the post I wanted to up yesterday, but I'll try again later today. Make sure you check back for... - A tour of La Placita C-Town in Peekskill, NY - A tour of the new Food Bazaar Supermarket in Elizabeth, NJ - A tour of Fresh Emporium in Jefferson, NJ And plenty of never-before-seen material, including: - A tour of Food Bazaar Supermarket in Bridgeport, CT - A tour of Supremo Foodmarket in Allentown, PA - A spreadsheet of the Associated Group stores And lots more! Stay tuned...

An excellent read about attempts to fix food deserts in the city of Philadelphia. Watching Philly Grocery Shoppers Is Changing How Cities Build Supermarkets

Supermarket Mysteries I: Decor This post includes: - Greenport IGA, Greenport, NY - Key Food Marketplace, Beacon, NY - Jack's Foodtown, North Arlington, NJ The Greenport IGA Image from Google Maps Street View. The Greenport IGA seems normal enough from this Google Maps street view from 2012. Any seasoned supermarket expert will tell you right off the bat this is an A&P Centennial model, and they'd be right. That's not the mystery here. Here's a close-up of the storefront taken by a family member. Seems average enough, right? Take a look inside through those windows. First of all, that Customer Service sign looks like it belong in an Acme Theme Park store,  not a small IGA. (By the way, it's not from an Acme Theme Park store. Does anyone recognize it? I'm not too familiar with Long Island supermarkets, but it could be Waldbaum's or King Kullen, neither of which I know well.) But take a closer look at the signage on t...