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Woo-Ri Mart Owner: Heung Park Opened: 2017 Cooperative:  none Location:  64 Princeton Hightstown Rd, West Windsor, NJ Photographed:  February 2021 I was in for a few surprises here at the Woo-Ri Mart in West Windsor. The first is that buried behind that new facade is actually a pitched-roof ACME, whose ceiling is exposed inside as we'll see. That was quite the shock to me when I stepped into the store. Turns out, while this is now referred to as West Windsor, back when ACME was here they called the store the Princeton Junction ACME, which of course I was familiar with from Acme Style . Princeton Junction refers to this area of West Windsor Township, so I wasn't aware that those were the same place. The second surprise, which I only actually came across while writing this post, is that this 22,000 square foot store was opened in 2014 as a Mrs. Green's Natural Market  as their first (and only?) New Jersey location after ACME closed in 2009. It then closed in 2016, wit...

McCaffrey's Food Markets Owner: Jim McCaffrey III Opened:  1996 Cooperative:  none Location:  335 Princeton Hightstown Rd, West Windsor, NJ Photographed:  February 2021 We arrive at our second McCaffrey's, and the chain only has two locations in New Jersey so we'll see a few more but over in PA. This 40,000 square foot store opened in 1996 as McCaffrey's third location (Yardley, PA opened in 1986, then Princeton, NJ in 1992) and appears to have been a new-build store at that time. We will get the feeling that this store looks a bit older than Princeton, so I assume Princeton was remodeled in the 00s while this store was not. That said, this store looks absolutely beautiful inside, and like the other locations is very high-end. We enter to produce in the front right corner, with deli/cheese behind it. Deli is in an island backing up to the grocery aisles, with prepared foods and seafood around the perimeter. Meat lines the back wall, with dairy in the second aisle, ...