The Market Report

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 in March 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 also...

Quick glance at a corner carniceria (butcher shop) across from Super on Palisade... Creative name. "Carniceria Latina" means Latin Butcher Shop in Spanish. However, this place seems to be a neighborhood institution, and it even has a website . I did not go in, but this looks like a real butcher shop -- not a grocery store with a meat counter.

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 in November 2017, 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 one...

Heading just a block east of Fiesta yesterday is this Extra Supermarket, not affiliated with the Extra Supermarkets chain. While that Extra is part of Retail Grocers and is supplied by General Trading Co. of Carlstadt, this Extra is supplied by Krasdale Foods . It's a member of AIM (the Association of Independent Merchants). Extra is on the ground floor of what appears to be a large apartment building, and has a private parking lot in back -- rare for this area. Palisade Ave, the road this store is on (pictured here), is certainly no Bergenline. It's a somewhat sleepy residential street, so it's unusual that a fairly major supermarket would be located on it. I'd love to know what this sign would have said; I doubt Extra installed it. Unfortunately we can only go back about ten years on Google Maps' street view. Anyone know what this was previously? The quiet street did allow me to get some photos of the storefront. The store is actually pretty large,...