The Market Report

Seabra Foods Owner: Antonio Seabra Opened:  ca. 2000 Previous Tenants:  ACME Markets (1954-?) > Foodtown (open by 1979) > Pioneer Supermarkets (open by 1997) Cooperative:  none Location:  1132 Liberty Ave, Hillside, NJ Photographed:  July and November 2020 Our next stop outside Elizabeth is the Seabra Foods in Hillside! Now, I just want to start with my personal experience with this store. Most of my family is from Elizabeth, and some of them still live there. I previously lived in Union but have moved to the northwest now. But nearly every time I come to Elizabeth, sometimes as frequently as twice a week, I come in on Morris Avenue. Somehow, I never realized that this store is less than half a mile north of Morris Avenue. I knew it was there, but what threw me off is that the road that intersects with Morris Avenue is called Salem Road (in Union), but just about a quarter of a mile north it becomes Liberty Avenue at the Hillside border. So having made almost weekly trips to Eli

Original Tenant:  Finast (First National Stores) Address:  1303 N Broad St, Hillside, NJ Opened:  ca. 1960 Closed:  Unknown Later Tenants:  Hillside IGA (??-??), Drug Fair (90s-09), Walgreens (09-18), Save-A-Lot (18- ) Although this store is located within the city limits of Hillside, a suburban town tucked in between Elizabeth and Newark, two of New Jersey's largest cities, it's in the far southeastern corner of the municipality. Therefore, it's actually closer to the Twin City Supermarket in Elizabeth than the ShopRite of Hillside, which was posted yesterday on The Market Report. The store's rather unusual facade comes from its years as a Drug Fair and is not unlike other former Drug Fair locations in Verona  (formerly A&P) and Belleville . Other views are quite difficult from Google Maps due to the trees surrounding the building. The store backs up to the Oheb Shalom Cemetery (to the right above) and borders the Evergreen Cemetery (below th

Let's check out a ShopRite today that, like Byram and Oakland , is quite large but made up of several expansions. However, the ShopRite here in Hillside is older than both of those two, if I'm not mistaken. The signage facing US-22 is kind of representative of the organization of the store. Way off to one side, there's a ShopRite sign near the driveway that directs cars into the store's parking lot. All the way at the far side of the property, even past the Burger King outparcel, is a randomly placed but huge ShopRite Pharmacy sign that, by the time you get to it, is way past any driveway into the store. And on the far end... Notice that 22 is a divided highway here, and this sign is nowhere near the store. This beauty was also located just west on 22 for eastbound traffic (you take the Bloy Street exit, then run along 22 on a service road and go under the highway on an underpass that also contains a pedestrian walkway, important for those in the neighbor