The Market Report

ShopRite Opened: 1980 Owner:  Inserra Supermarkets Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Location:  66 N Main St, New City, NY Photographed:  February 26, 2025 Welcome back to the ShopRite of New City! We've visited this small town about seven miles north of the New Jersey border before, and I've actually posted a tour of this ShopRite, but that was a long time ago so if you don't remember it, don't sweat it. My 2019 pictures are also included in this post. 2019 The 56,000 square foot store opened in 1980 as a new-build store and, at the time of my visit in 2019, was still looking very dated. (It was renovated and expanded out both sides in the 90s.) In 2023, it was announced that the mall it's in was set to be remodeled, and that the ShopRite would remodel to accompany the overall new look. The work finished with a ribbon cutting on February 24, 2025. 2025 The exterior has gotten a new facade, and I must say I really like the wood-texture faca...

Corrado's Market Opened:  1976 Owner:  James Corrado Previous Tenants:  Good Deal Cooperative:  none Location:  1578 Main Ave, Clifton, NJ Photographed:  February 20, 2025 It's time to return to the Corrado's Market in Clifton, and unfortunately the store is looking much worse than it did the last time I visited . (You can also see pictures of the store in better times there.) This is the final remaining store, as locations in Denville , North Arlington , Wayne , and Fairfield have closed, plus a planned store in Brick was canceled. There's a redevelopment project pending here , but I don't know what the status of that is. There's no visible sign of ongoing construction work, except... ...this stop work order which greets customers as they enter. (Apparently they were doing construction work without a permit, and while I'm not sure exactly which part of the store this is referring to, there's some work being done in the front corner that we'll see....

Freshtown Marketplace Opened:  February 21, 2025 Owner:  PSK Supermarkets Previous Tenants:  Big Lots Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Location:  59 N Plank Rd, Newburgh, NY Photographed:  February 26, 2025 Welcome to the latest store from Allegiance Retail! The cooperative, which primarily runs Foodtown stores, has been on a bit of an expansion kick lately, and this new store in the Hudson Valley city of Newburgh is the most recent example. Newburgh actually already has a store affiliated with Allegiance, the Market Fresh on route 17K , which is under different ownership. This Freshtown is owned by PSK Supermarkets, a company started in the Bronx by Paul Sydney Katz (hence PSK) and later expanding outside the city. Today, it's employee-owned but still run by a member of the Katz family. The roughly 25,000 square foot store isn't huge, but it's a good size and has extensive selections despite being much smaller than the 72,000 square foot Market 32 practic...