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The Fresh Grocer - North Haledon, NJ

The Fresh Grocer Owner:  David Maniaci / Nicholas Markets Opened:  2020 as The Fresh Grocer Previous Tenants:  A&P > Nicholas Foodtown Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  1068 High Mountain Rd, North Haledon, NJ Photographed:  April 20, 2026 Before we begin, just a heads up: this was originally posted in December 2020, but was rewritten with new photos in August 2026. Now for the post! Can you believe that behind that facade is a Centennial A&P? Though I can't find the picture right now, it still looked like that when Nicholas Markets took over the store in the 1980s. It was a Foodtown from then until 2020, when it was officially converted from Foodtown to The Fresh Grocer. And if the store looks familiar, that's because we saw it back when it was a Foodtown in 2017. As you can see, it hasn't changed all that much since the Foodtown days save for a few small updates to signage and fixtures. This store comes in just unde...

TOUR: ShopRite - Wyckoff, NJ

ShopRite of Wyckoff Owner:  Inserra Supermarkets Opened:  2019 Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop > A&P Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  430 Greenwood Ave, Wyckoff, NJ Photographed:  August 2019 Announced as far back as 2010, this ShopRite replaced an A&P Futurestore that previously stood on the site. It finally opened in January 2019, despite a non-stop legal battle from Stop & Shop, which has a store just 400 feet away. The current ShopRite, which is owned by the Inserra family, is a new-build store and did not take the former A&P building , which sat abandoned for many years. The store is beautiful and certainly a step up from the nearby Stop & Shop. It's worth noting that the A&P was built as a Stop & Shop, which would've sold to A&P in the mid-1980s when Stop & Shop pulled out of New Jersey, before the newer Stop & Shop was built in the late 90s or early 2000s. (This is ...