Universal Food Markets Owner: Bilit Patel Opened: 2013 Cooperative: Krasdale Location: 494 Ellison St, Paterson, NJ Photographed: August 2019 Today's store tour is an independent store just east of downtown Paterson, and a few blocks south of yesterday's CTown . This store is somewhere in the range of 10,000 square feet and joins Universal locations in Rahway and Camden , CTown in Orange , Bravo in Newark , Golden Mango in Paterson , and Eagle and Super El Rey in Elizabeth, all owned by the Patel family. Any readers of my blogs know I'm not a fan of supermarket-bashing, but Universal stores are the bottom of the barrel when it comes to urban supermarkets. This location, like all the others I've been to, was very dingy and is clearly not held to the same standards as a store like the Madison CTown, even though both are affiliated with Krasdale Foods. It's a shame, given that Universal's stores are all in some of the lowest income neig...