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Seabra's Market Owner: Jose Seabra Opened:  2018 Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1350 Galloping Hill Rd, Union, NJ Photographed:  July 29, 2022 We are returning to the Seabra's Market at Five Points in Union , which is a former A&P, later Foodtown and Food King before being purchased by A Seabra Foods, which in turn rebranded to Seabra's Market in 2018. The store has been shuffled around a little, and there are a few indications that Seabra's might be finding the 30,500 square foot store a bit large for them. Their other large store is the Lafayette Street location in the Ironbound, which with its various extensions and expansions comes in right around 30,000 square feet too. But that store is in the Ironbound, with a dense urban surrounding and a very large Portuguese population. The other big change to report on here at Union is that the Union and Elizabeth locations of Seabra's Market are now affiliated with Key Food, no longer Associated Supermark...

Seabra's Market Owner:  Jose Seabra Opened:  2018 Cooperative:  Associated Supermarket Group Location:  1350 Galloping Hill Rd, Union, NJ Photographed:  January 2020 Today's snapshot is a quick look at this supermarket at Five Points in Union, NJ. We toured this store as an A Seabra Foods in April 2017, before the four A Seabra Foods stores rebranded the following year. The interior, for the record, looks exactly the same (although the grocery aisles have been reset) and the wonderful bakery is still just as wonderful. This store opened as a centennial A&P back in the 1960s, doubled in size around the 70s, then closed around 2005. It became a Foodtown owned by Food Circus Supermarkets, then was briefly converted under the same ownership to a Food King. Around 2007, A Seabra moved in and completely renovated the space. In the 1990s, A&P came up with a plan to move this 30,000 square foot store to a newly built, 66,000-square foot store ...

Gold Valley Supermarket Owner:  unknown Opened:  2014 Cooperative:  none Location:  211 Morris Ave, Springfield, NJ Photographed:  March 2019 and December 2020 Today's store is a 23,000 square foot Asian supermarket, in fact, the only Asian supermarket in this part of the state. It was built as a Grand Union and converted to a Circus Foodtown in 2001, later becoming Food King a little under 10 years later. It later became an A Seabra Foods (now Seabra's Market), and in 2014 became Gold Valley. Although the decor inside has been modified to include Chinese characters and some more specific signage, the bones are left from Seabra (compare this store to Union ). After the initial single exterior shot above from March 2019, I returned in December of 2020 to see the interior and I was quite impressed. The store is 23,000 square feet, and it's about twice as deep as it is wide. The back 1/3 or so has a second floor, likely for offices. We enter to a spacious produce ...