The Market Report

Original Tenant: A&P Address: 7 Naughright Rd, Hackettstown, NJ Opened:  1999 Closed:  2015 Later Tenants:  subdivided, Retro Fitness Photographed:  May 2020 & June 2021 This 56,000 square foot A&P was actually the third in Hackettstown, where the chain had at least one operating store since 1958. The original store and 1980s-era replacement were both over at 57 US-46 , a few miles west of here on 46, and this store opened as a replacement for the 1980s store in 1999. As we see here, the far left portion of the store (about 18,000 square feet) has been taken over by Retro Fitness. However, the majority of the A&P remains -- with its signage! Except for the "FOOD MARKET" lettering, for whatever reason. That was removed, who knows why. Crazy how good this sign, which is original to the store in 1999, still looked five years after the store's closure. The paint wasn't so lucky. Let's take a look at what we can see inside the store. Here's the fo...

Original Tenant: A&P Address: 57 US-46, Hackettstown, NJ Opened:  1958 Closed:  1980s Later Tenants:  Blockbuster Video > Atlantic Health Systems Photographed:  May 2020 The first A&P store in Hackettstown was here at 57 US-46, in a barrel-roof store that was later retrofitted with a Centennial facade. This store came in at just over 18,000 square feet, which is just around the same size as the Centennial purpose-built stores. In the 1980s, A&P constructed a new, 32,000 square foot store at the back of this strip mall, which in turn relocated to 7 Naughright Rd in 1999. That's our other post for the day which you can see here . The newer 80s store in this mall also became a Food Basics for roughly two years in the early 2000s. The storefront here was later a Blockbuster Video, which you can see in JoshAustin610's photo linked above. Today, most of the strip mall has been converted into medical offices (along with some non-medical tenants, such as a...

Original Tenant: A&P Address: 128 NJ-94, Blairstown, NJ Opened:  1960s Closed:  1990s Later Tenants:  Tractor Supply Co. Photographed:  January 2021 A&P came to the small town of Blairstown, in northwestern Warren County, in the 1960s with a 26,000 square foot store. In the late 1970s, that store was renovated and upgraded with a new facade (which we see here), and then in the 1990s this store was replaced by a new store double the size up NJ-94. A&P (and now ACME) aren't the only game in town, however, as there is a small grocery store in town which you can see here . I don't believe the Tractor Supply Company store has any A&P remnants inside, although I'm not sure. What does appear to be an A&P remnant is the cart corral in the parking lot... Don't forget to check out those stores linked above, and tomorrow, we move on to a little general store just to the east tomorrow on  The Independent Edition !

ACME Markets Opened: 2015 Previous Tenants:  A&P (1990s-2015) Location:  152 NJ-94, Blairstown, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 & June 2021 Our first stop in the Hunterdon-Warren area is in northwestern Warren county in an area that feels an awful lot like Sussex County, where we just left. Blairstown is roughly 13 miles to the northwest of Hackettstown, where we'll be headed in a few days. This store is just outside what might be considered downtown Blairstown (not a large town but not a crazy small one either with roughly 6000 people), and route 94 here is fairly remote for a large supermarket like ACME. It's about five miles north from route 80, the major interstate through the area. This store was built as an A&P in the 1990s to replace an older 1960s-era location just east on 94, which you can see here . This small town also has another grocery store, Dale's Market , whose Branchville location we saw not long ago. I first visited the store in January of ...