The Independent Edition

Bishop's Supermarket Owner: Bill Bishop Opened:  1989 in current location Cooperative:  IGA (Retail Marketing Group) Location:  431 US-22, Whitehouse Station, Readington, NJ Photographed:  August 6, 2022 We return to Bishop's Supermarket in Readington, an exceptionally well-run independent store on route 22 about 30 miles west of Newark. This was my third time returning to the store, and each time I liked the store a little bit better. I did a full shopping here in August and was thoroughly impressed with the selection and quality. Here's my original tour. We see a reset here in the produce department, and generally around the perimeter. There's new flooring and fixtures, with the cases on the left side having been painted and the right side cases having been replaced. Note that the new cases on the right have doors. The only strange thing was that the track lighting on the ceiling here is not functional, and I'm not sure why. Then again, if you look at my 2020 pi...

Bishop's Supermarket Owner: Bill Bishop Opened:  1989 in current location Cooperative:  IGA (Retail Marketing Group) Location:  431 US-22, Whitehouse Station, Readington, NJ Photographed:  March 2020 Welcome to Readington Township, home of Wakefern Food Corp's dairy and poultry producer Readington Farms! So while the ShopRite of Branchburg may get its milk, eggs, and poultry from just over three miles away, Wakefern doesn't actually have a supermarket within Readington Township. Branchburg's ShopRite, by the way, is only four and a half miles east on route 22, but Branchburg is Somerset County and that's why I included it with the Somerville area stores rather than these. You've gotta make those distinctions somewhere! Now let's take a look at Bishop's, which is just half a mile west of the Whitehouse Station Kings . Even in these sparsely populated parts of the state, the supermarkets are still clustered together. It's a different story, of course...