The Market Report

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened: October 18, 2024 Owner:  Spencer An Previous Tenants:  Edwards > Stop & Shop Cooperative:  none Location:  581 Stelton Rd, Piscataway, NJ Photographed:  November 9, 2024 Buckle up for a big weekend! Today and tomorrow, we'll be taking a look at eleven brand-new or newly-renovated stores (and the full list is at the bottom of this post). We're starting with two of the acquired Food Bazaar locations converted from Stop & Shop in the last several weeks. First, let's see what's going on at Piscataway, which opened in mid-October. The store has been fully set up (well okay, mostly) but strangely, it's still not really on the Food Bazaar program. There are minimal storebrands -- some Bogopa, Food Bazaar's own brand, but minimal selections of other brands. I saw only a few Seven Farms products, the organic brand distributed by Food Bazaar's distributor Bozzuto's, and no Life Every Day or Life Goods (also from Bozzuto&

Food Bazaar Supermarket Opened:  October 18, 2024 Owner:  Spencer An Previous Tenants:  Edwards > Stop & Shop Cooperative:  none Location:  581 Stelton Rd, Piscataway, NJ Photographed:  October 19, 2024 A very last-minute addition to today's posts! Welcome to the Piscataway Food Bazaar, which opened on Friday. It's been converted from Stop & Shop in the same process as the others Food Bazaar acquired ( Coney Island , Hempstead , and Carlstadt ). Stop & Shop closed at 3pm on Thursday, then the flurry of activity descended upon the store (it was very entertaining to see Google Maps list the Stop & Shop as "busier than usual" on Thursday evening). And Food Bazaar was open at 7am Friday. I visited late yesterday afternoon. The roughly 65,000 square foot store was constructed in the late 1990s as an Edwards, then Ahold's New York City-area chain. In 2001, all the Edwards became Stop & Shops, and the store got a partial renovation then. Stop &