The Independent Edition

Extra Supermarkets Owner: Orfilio Chaviano and Nick Gonzalez Opening:  Spring 2024 Cooperative:  none Location:  80 Central Ave, East Orange, NJ Photographed:  December 20, 2023 Extra Supermarkets is preparing a second store in East Orange! Their original East Orange store is in the former ShopRite at 563 Central Ave , and now a second one is under construction in a former 11,000 square foot Rite Aid-turned-Walgreens 16 blocks (a little over a mile) to the east. This one is just a couple blocks west of the Newark border, while the other one is about the same distance to the Orange border. The store was announced last September and is expected to open this spring (originally expected to open last fall). In addition to Extra locations in East Orange, Newark , Maplewood , and Dover , this group owns Food Depot stores in Newark , Kearny, and Belleville (although the East Orange one that was supposedly in progress a while ago has been canceled and the building is now ...

Henning's Supermarket Owner: Bob Henning Opened:  2003 in existing location; 1889 previously Cooperative:  none (UNFI supplied) Location:  290 Main St, Harleysville, PA Photographed:  January 6, 2020 Welcome to Henning's Supermarket, a 60,000 square foot independent supermarket here in the town of Harleysville, PA, the largest supermarket around and a really spectacular store. We're going to begin this tour from above, so that we can get a good idea of the layout. This store has existed in one form or another since the late 1800s, but most recently moved from the other end of the strip mall to the existing building in 2003 in what was previously a Jamesway. At some point, Henning's was Thriftway-affiliated, but I'm not sure when they split off. Henning's is a rather upscale store, as we'll see, but it's a very complete supermarket. It also feels much larger than its 60,000 square feet, not to mention it's much larger than nearly all of the other ind...