The Independent Edition

Meat City Market Owner: unknown Opened:  ca. 2017 (1980-2014 under previous ownership) Cooperative:  Krasdale Location:  1334 W 7th St, Piscataway, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 It's always interesting to see the rivalry when two stores are located almost directly across the street from each other. In this case, Meat City is just 700 feet away from the Bravo Supermarket , but Meat City is in Piscataway and Bravo is in South Plainfield. Meat City had originally opened in 1980, then burned down in 2014 . It seems that new owners took over following that, although I'm not entirely sure about that, and they rebuilt the store from the ground up over the following 2-3 years. Here's a look at what Meat City used to look like. The new building and its landscaping look fantastic today. At 8900 square feet, I believe the new Meat City is slightly larger than the old store, and is more of a general supermarket. Before we head in, there's something to see outside... All of the c...

Asian Food Markets Owner: Jon Chen Opened:  2006 Cooperative:  none Location:  1339 Centennial Ave, Piscataway, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 We're here in the section of Piscataway that has all the big box stores. Centennial Square, where this store is located, also is home to a Lowe's, a Walmart, and an ALDI (which we're also touring today because why not!). Also check out today's tour of the ShopRite across the street here . Our past tours of Asian Food Markets include Jersey City and Marlboro . The 23,000 square foot store starts with an expansive produce and meat department in the grand aisle, with service seafood and butcher taking up the rest of the back wall. The last aisle has frozen foods, with a bakery and prepared foods department in the front corner. Like many deep and narrow stores, this location is divided with a center aisle halfway across the store. The meat department takes up the back corner. Oddly, there is no sign other than the poster advertisi...

Subzi Mandi Cash & Carry Owner: Harwinder Singh Opened:  2010 Cooperative:  none Location:  1347 Stelton Rd, Piscataway, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 The road between Edison (on the Highland Park side) and Piscataway starts in Edison as Plainfield Avenue, then becomes Stelton Road across the border in Piscataway. So yesterday's produce market was just up the street, even though the name of the road is different, about a mile and a half. And as we circle north from Edison into Piscataway, we're circling around the northern side of Rutgers University's Livingston and Busch campuses. After we see the last few stores here in Piscataway, by the way, we're crossing the Raritan River into New Brunswick, where we'll see other stores between Rutgers' College Avenue (to the northwest) and Cook-Douglass (to the southeast) campuses. But for now, we're stopping by this independent Indian grocery store that opened in 2010 in a small strip mall. The store is about 4,0...