Stop & Shop
Opened: early 2000s
Previous Tenants: none
Location: 1129 NJ-34, Aberdeen, NJ
Photographed: January 2021
We're heading just under a quarter of a mile south on NJ-34 from yesterday's tour for our two stores today -- both on 34 and just next door to each other. This is a Stop & Shop, built in the early 00s, has to be one of the largest Stop & Shop locations out there at nearly 90,000 square feet. It features a rather boring decor package which we saw in Union. It replaced an older location at the other end of the strip mall, previously a Grand Union and now a Bed Bath & Beyond. Also make sure to check out the ShopRite just across the street here. That's all for Aberdeen, and tomorrow we're heading back up to NJ-35 to return to Hazlet here on The Market Report!
That is one of the larger S&S locations in the area. Very similar to other new builds, like Howell, rather than stores taken over from Grand Union.
ReplyDeleteLikely since (as noted) it is a newly built store, to replace a Grand Union they took over in the same plaza.
ReplyDeleteOh yea. This is definitely either a new build or a reconstruction. Likely new.
Delete(Hackensack has this same look, but they gave it a facelift from the old Grand Union facade.)
Yes, this store replaced the older Grand Union conversion in the same mall, which is now a Bed Bath & Beyond as mentioned above. This is the largest Stop & Shop I've ever encountered, are there larger ones out there? I definitely see the similarities to Howell but that store, at 65,000 square feet, is significantly smaller. Why would Stop & Shop have built such an abnormally large store here? BillyGr - you mention on the ShopRite post that the Stop & Shop came first, so was it a preemptive strike against Saker?
DeleteDid they tear down the Jamesway when they built this? Or is it the same building that Jamesway was in?
ReplyDeleteI checked on historic aerials and the building is the exact shape and size of the old Jamesway, so it would seem to not be new construction as a Stop and Shop
ReplyDeleteThat would make sense, but I'm not sure of that.
DeleteAh, that adds a twist.
DeleteWe have one identical situation up here, outside of Rhinebeck, NY. That Stop & Shop is now a Tops (was sold off when Ahold & Delhaize merged, as there is a Hannaford just up the road), and was the northernmost S&S within NYS (though of course at that point they also controlled Tops to the west and they took over many more northern GU locations, leaving a sort of "hole" around the Albany area).
But the scenario was identical. Stop & Shop took over the Grand Union that was next door to the empty Jamesway, in that case actually demolished the Jamesway building and built their store totally new and the store looks exactly like this one.
So this one could also be a totally new building, even if the size matches, or perhaps they just renovated it. Probably no way to tell unless someone happens to see the post that actually saw it in progress.
Also makes it unclear if they did it in preemptive to ShopRite enlarging, or if they were just replacing their inherited (and likely much smaller) stores at the same time wherever they found that business did well enough to make it sensible to do that and where the space existed (where others were just added on to like Brick or used as is like the one visible from 287)?
Just an extra note - from the Asbury Park Press today, Aberdeen/Matawan are the only two municipalities in Monmouth County that grew in the 2020 census (the rest either stayed the same or declined in population).
ReplyDeleteNo idea if this has started that far back, but may also be a reasoning for larger stores if it did start 20 years ago.
Ah interesting, thanks for mentioning that!
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