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Look Inside: Gino's Market - Phillipsburg, NJ

Gino's Market Owner: Gino Forteburno Opened:  1977 Cooperative:  none Location:  541 Congress St, Phillipsburg, NJ Photographed:  January 2022 I've wanted to come here to Gino's Market for quite some time, and I was initially planning to come here on the same day that I visited Towne Market and Cather's for the first time. Something told me to visit Cather's instead of Gino's, possibly just the fact that it was more on my way home than Gino's, but oh man my intuition has never led me so wrong. I did get to return to Gino's in January 2022, and it was entirely worth the stop. Everyone passing through Phillipsburg should be stopping here for lunch! I did, and I got an amazing sandwich (more on that shortly), and also talked to Gino for a while. He told me all about the history of the store, which began back in 1920 when the Ingersoll company (now Ingersoll-Rand, a maker of industrial and construction equipment) was developing a large part of Phillipsbur...