The Market Report

Orange Farmers Market Opened: 2000 Owner:  Tony Chyoi Previous Tenants:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  502 Main St, City of Orange, NJ Photographed:  October 24, 2025 Orange, NJ's greengrocer shop, the Orange Farmers Market, is getting a big change. And it happened to be in the process of being delivered on a flatbed truck when I was recently at the store. A long seafood display case was in the process of being rolled into the store and off this truck when I recently stopped by. The store is only 6,000 square feet, so it's quite small. But there are a few aisles of produce, about three grocery aisles, and some dairy and frozen foods. The new seafood counter is going into the back of the store. The old-school store has gotten some updates since I last visited , but the seafood department is the main change. The shelving at the back of the store had been cleared out to make way for the new display case, which I assume is to be installed here along the bac...

ShopRite Open: 1967-2025 Owner: Dara Sblendorio / Sunrise Supermarkets Previous Tenants: none Later Tenants:  vacant Cooperative: Wakefern Food Corp. Location: 540 Passaic Ave, West Caldwell, NJ Photographed:  October 26, 2025 A quick drive-by photo to show the now-closed ShopRite of West Caldwell -- the old one, at least, as the shiny new one has opened just around the corner. The space of the old store is for lease , and it looks like they're not looking for another supermarket to move in. (It's possible, although I'm not certain, that Sunrise still owns the property or has some control over a new tenant coming in, so they might not want another grocery store to come in and compete with them.) Here's the rest of the news from this weekend: Saturday An independent grocer prepares to switch from Foodtown to SuperFresh A New Jersey ShopRite expands its kosher department while doing some other updates  (this post) Dumbo Market  and  ALDI  celebrate ope...

ALDI Opened:  November 6, 2025 Owner:  ALDI Sud Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  625 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY Photographed: November 12, 2025 ALDI has opened its latest New York City store, here on the border of Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene (Google tells me that this store is just barely in a western corner of Fort Greene). This store is located in a new-construction development, so you can see retail spaces to either side of the ALDI are not yet filled and are still under construction. When you enter through that front door, you walk down a hallway to get into the supermarket, which is set back from the road a bit. The store is around 15,000 square feet, making it roughly typical in size for an ALDI. It's quite a bit smaller than the new LIDL just about four blocks west, though. This store is also within an easy walk of a Whole Foods (previously one of the 365 small-format stores), a Stop & Shop (previously Pathmark), a gourmet-fo...

Dumbo Market Opened: November 7, 2025 Owner:  Mohammed Mujalli Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  2-57 50th Ave, Long Island City, NY Photographed:  November 12, 2025 Welcome to Long Island City's newest supermarket! This 13,000 square foot Dumbo Market opened earlier this month in a newly-built mixed-use development in the booming neighborhood. It's the third Dumbo Market location in New York City, joining two Brooklyn locations in Dumbo and Boerum Hill, although the owners also own Urban Market stores in New York City and Hoboken . See the store in progress here . As I mention on that post, it was initially reported that this store would replace the older Urban Market location diagonally across the street, which is owned by the same family, but both stores seem to be fully functional and here to stay, at least for now. (It's always possible the Urban Market will wind down its operations over time.) But this Dumbo Market is a bra...