Aqui Market Owner: Araceli Perez Opened: 2018 Cooperative: Retail Grocers Group Location: 431 CR-513, Califon, NJ Photographed: March 2020 I was very excited to report on the opening of the Aqui Market here in Califon, a borough of just 1000 people, back in 2018 with excellent pictures from a contributor. In early March of 2020, I got to visit the store for myself and was, conditionally, impressed. The owners of Aqui Market (with other locations in Jersey City and Bridgewater , along with an older JC location that closed recently) have done a beautiful job transforming this 25,000 square foot 1970s-era A&P , but execution as far as product mix and pricing leaves a bit to be desired. As far as the name of the town goes, it is thought to be a shortening of "California" but an amusing local legend says that the sign painters, having taken the train out from Dunellen with the sign's background paint, found that upon arriving in Califon the sign's background ...