TOUR: Whole Foods Market - Marlboro, NJ

Whole Foods Market
Opened: ca. 2014

Previous Tenants: none

Location: 113 US-9, Marlboro, NJ

Photographed: February 2021

Oh golly gee, folks. I'm talking to you from the wee morning hours on a random Friday in March 2021. Yes, that's when this post was actually written. But despite the fact that I visited this store just over a month ago (in writing-time), I remember very little about it because it was an accidental stop because I got in the wrong lane and had to make a U-turn and figured why not do it in this parking lot oh wait there's a supermarket I should stop. It's right across the highway from yesterday's Livoti's and former Pathmark. And although I remember only a little, we're going to work with it and hope for the best.

I do very much like the barn-style exterior of the store, which it was designed with as a new-build store in 2014. It would be nice if the barn motif continued inside, but sadly it does not (that's not to say the interior isn't quite attractive). At 38,000 square feet, it's on the smaller side for a big-chain supermarket.

We enter to produce on the right side of the store, with cheese in the back right corner. Dairy, meat, and seafood then line the back wall in that order from right to left, with deli, prepared foods, and bakery lining the left side wall from back to front.

Cheese is displayed at the back of produce in a gently curving case, with dairy rounding out the right half of the back wall. Get it? Rounding? I told you it's late... I need to sleep, not write supermarket blogs. But here we are. I promise you this is the last post I'm going to write tonight.

And if I turned around from the above picture, I'd look out towards the grocery aisles past coffee and tea in their own little department. Great merchandising!

Pretty much all of Whole Foods' grocery aisles look the same across stores, but is it just me or is this shelving higher than normal? Perhaps that's a compensation for the smaller footprint of the store.

The Whole Body department is in the back of the grocery aisles. You can also get a sense of the back wall here -- dairy is to the right in the maroon section, with meat and seafood to the left.

Beautiful butcher counter. I must say, Whole Foods does butchers very well.

Here we can see the seafood counter in the back corner of the last aisle, which then has deli and prepared foods lining the outside.

Here's an overview of the last aisle, with the kitchen on the outside wall.

Awesome-looking pizza counter. I like Whole Foods' pizza very much but I always do prefer local pizzerias when I can.

Bakery in the front corner of the last aisle, with packaged goods facing...

The front-end has registers set out from the front wall, with what used to be a cafe and is now one of those kinda-cool-kinda-creepy Amazon Prime (or is it Amazon Fresh?) fulfillment center type thing.

This feels like one of the nicer Whole Foods locations I've been to, but they also all kind of look the same to me. Now this is a good milestone to reach... we are done with Monmouth County! Starting tomorrow we're going to cross to the north to Old Bridge, which is back in Middlesex County (remember when we first passed through in Woodbridge/Perth Amboy?). Come back here on The Market Report to check out our next store!