The Independent Edition

Pueblo Meat Supermarket Owner: Alfredo Diaz Opened:  1994 Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  611 Broadway, Mount Prospect, Newark, NJ Photographed:  June 2020 We've returned to Newark, in the northeastern corner of the city, just about three quarters of a mile southeast of Pueblo Meat Supermarket . This store was opened by Twin City/Pueblo owners Alfonso and Myrna Perez before being sold probably around 2000. The new owner has kept the Twin City name and logo but uses a different website , along with a few other changes. As for the store itself, I'm almost positive it started out as a Food Fair (given the signature terrazzo flooring still intact inside) and I know it later became a Mayfair Foodtown. Like all the other Twin City group stores, this one is a well-run smaller urban supermarket. At 17,000 square feet, it's a little over half the size of Pueblo but still has a solid selection. The first two aisles here seem to have been redone very recently, wit...

Pueblo Meat Supermarket Owner: Alfonso and Myrna Perez Opened:  1987 Cooperative:  Retail Grocers Group Location:  880 Mount Prospect Ave, Forest Hill, Newark, NJ Photographed:  June 2020 We're here at the far northern tip of the city of Newark to see the large supermarket serving the neighborhood of Forest Hill. Opened in 1987 by husband-and-wife team Alfonso and Myrna Perez, who also run the wonderful Twin City Supermarket in Elizabeth and Plainfield (which we'll be touring when we get down to that area), this 30,000 square foot store was built as a Food Fair and later became a Pantry Pride, being purchased by Mayfair Foodtown in the late 1970s and then Pueblo in 1987. I don't entirely know why this store was not branded Twin City, but there is also a Twin City about 3/4 of a mile south (we'll get there in a few days). Awful logo aside, this store is looking great today. The blue color is actually pretty bright and fun in person, and the property is clearly metic...

Super Supermarket Owner: Alfredo Lopez Opened: 1990s Cooperative: Retail Grocers Group Location: 610 N 6th St, Silver Lake, Newark, NJ Photographed: June 2020 A few blocks to the east from yesterday's Superfresh Food World , we find this independent store. I'm a little confused as to this store's relation to the other Super Supermarkets, such as the one we recently revisited in Orange , since it uses a different logo and a different website . The sign we see here, by the way, was recently installed and the store previously had no sign at all . As I mentioned in that post, this was previously a Foodtown but I'm not entirely sure what, if anything, it would've been before that. The 17,000 square foot store faces North 6th Street but is very deep and very narrow, meaning aisles are long and few. You enter to produce in the front half of the first aisle, with frozen foods taking up the back half. Deli, butcher, and seafood service counters line the back wall, with ...