The Independent Edition

Selecto Supermarket Owner: unknown Opened:  1996 Cooperative:  Krasdale Foods Location:  533 S Broad St, Chambersburg, Trenton, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 Heading into Chambersburg, just south of downtown Trenton, we find two supermarkets just about 500 feet apart. The roughly 4,000 square foot Selecto Supermarket may be dwarfed by the over-70,000 square foot Food Bazaar to the east, but Selecto packs a lot of selection into its small space. In the first aisle, on the far-right side of the store, we have produce, meat, and dairy. Note that we are looking towards the front of the store from the back here. If I'm not mistaken, there are just three aisles, with the middle one here featuring even more stuff in the middle of the aisle. My assumption would be that this store has been a grocery store for many, many decades (although Selecto only opened in 1996), but unfortunately Groceteria has no listing for this address. Butcher and deli on the back wall. Can't say...

Super Food Supermarket Owner:  Eddie Trujillo Opened:  mid-2000s Cooperative:  none Location:  359 Pennington Ave, Pennington/Prospect, Trenton, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 Our first store tour here in Trenton is one of six supermarkets in the city. Trenton currently has this Super Food, a Selecto Supermarket, a Food Bazaar, a Supreme Food Market, and two Compare Foods. We'll be seeing all of those except the two Compare Foods this time around. There are also assorted other small grocery stores and bodegas. At a whopping 75,000 square feet, the Food Bazaar is by far the largest, but at 25,000 square feet, Super Food is larger than you can shake a stick at. This store opened sometime in the early 2000s as a CTown (you'll notice the "Supermarkets for Savings" signage remaining outside and on these promotional flags inside) in a new-build complex, but shortly thereafter was converted to Super Food. Super Food is a single-store banner but part of the Supremo Food...