TOUR: Weis Markets - Hackettstown, NJ

Weis Markets

Opened: mid-2000s

Previous Tenants: none

Location: 2045 NJ-57, Hackettstown, NJ

Photographed: July 2020

It's time for our final Weis in New Jersey! This store was built in the mid-2000s, and based on the Weis locations we've seen so far in New Jersey, it's predictably built just 1600 feet from a large RoNetco ShopRite. I don't have a clear idea of how this store does compared to the ShopRite, but again, I would assume Weis wouldn't be keeping these stores open this long if they were miserable failures. I visited these stores on a Tuesday afternoon, not exactly peak grocery shopping time, so both the Weis and the ShopRite (which is technically over in Mansfield) were absolutely empty.

This is quite an attractive store, with a pretty standard layout that we've come to expect from the Weis locations. There was one change going on at the time of my visit, which we'll see shortly.

The grand aisle is on the left side of the store, with produce to the right and bakery, deli, and seafood clockwise around the left side. Meat lines the back wall, with dairy and frozen in aisles 12-14 on the right side. This store is pretty large, at over 63,000 square feet, but it's not huge.

Bakery is in the front left corner of the store. It felt like this store's bakery was much larger than the other Weis stores in this area.

Prepared foods and deli are along the left side wall. This store definitely has a distinctly more spacious feel than most of the other Weis locations around.

Deli in the back corner.

Looking back up towards the front of the grand aisle. You can see that this is quite an attractive store from this shot.

Seafood and meat on the back wall, our view of which is being obscured by clearance health and beauty items. We'll see why shortly.

A look across the back wall of the store.

Here in the first aisle, we see that the store's pharmacy department (which used to be straight ahead up against the wall that's now painted turquoise) has been removed and the first aisle of health and beauty items (see the signage above) is in the process of being turned over into natural foods.

Here's where the pharmacy department used to be. As we can see, this reset was still very much in progress at the time of my visit. Note that the wall color here matches what we saw in the newest NJ Weis, over in Randolph, which may suggest a larger remodel is in progress here (but I'm not sure and haven't been back to check, unfortunately).

We can see here where the pharmacy counter used to extend to.

Notice here that the reset extends into the grocery aisles, too, which were all being shuffled around at the time of my visit. I do wonder why the pharmacy was removed, at least if it was not part of a larger remodel.

My old phone was doing some weird things with the lighting on some of these shots.

Looking into the back corner with cold cuts and dairy.

Half of aisle 12 and all of aisle 13 is frozen foods.

One more look across the back wall towards the grand aisle before we move down the last aisle...

One thing I really do like about this decor package is that it doesn't peter out at the end of the store, as we see sometimes. The dark blue graphics for dairy are quite impressive in person. Once again, I am disappointed that Weis is no longer using this decor package but oh well, the newer one is quite nice too.

A look across the front-end from the dairy/frozen side, and from the grand aisle side...

Don't forget to see today's tour of the ShopRite here, and tomorrow, our figurative wheels are rolling west on route 46 to head out to a small independent grocer on The Independent Edition!