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TOUR: El Mercado de la Ocho - Passaic, NJ

El Mercado de la Ocho Owner:  Cesar Aguirre Opened:  2016 Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  100 8th St, Passaic, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 Our final stop within the city limits of Passaic is this sprawling 20,000 square foot warehouse which makes up the largest Mexican supermarket in the city. (Read more about the city and this supermarket here , a great article.) This supermarket is a great resource for the imported foods, but its location a block south of the former ShopRite we saw yesterday makes it nearly impossible to just stumble across. So when people come here, they're coming here specifically for this store. And speaking of the ShopRite... this cart corral is definitely from there! Let's head in to the store! You go up a ramp to enter the store on the right side. A produce department takes up the front right quadrant of the store, with meat and deli on the back right wall. Packaged meat lines the back wall with ...