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Update: Shop Fresh Marketplace - Hackettstown, NJ

Shop Fresh Marketplace Owner: Nick Nasser Opened:  March 3, 2023 Cooperative:  Great Valu Markets Location:  7 Naughright Rd, Hackettstown, NJ Photographed:  June 13, 2023 We return to Shop Fresh Marketplace of Hackettstown, which opened in March in a former A&P on route 46 just outside of the town. In fact, I attended the soft opening on its first day in business, March 3rd. An official ribbon-cutting was later held on April 1st. I returned to the store on June 13th to find the store well on its way to going out of business. Think I'm exaggerating? I was one of two customers in the store and found the shelves mostly empty... While the store is still very attractive, it is also clearly soon to close. Social media posts as far back as late April show shelves beginning to empty out, and clearly that process has only continued. Most of the service departments have closed, too, leaving only the deli in operation. All the prepared foods are gone... ...and although ...

Special Report: Shop Fresh Marketplace - Hackettstown, NJ

Shop Fresh Marketplace Owner: Nick Nasser Opened:  March 3, 2023 Cooperative:  Great Valu Markets Location:  7 Naughright Rd, Hackettstown, NJ Photographed:  March 3, 2023 Welcome back to the former Hackettstown A&P , just reopened a week ago as Shop Fresh Marketplace! The independent grocery store is owned by Nick Nasser, whose stores we've toured before, and this time affiliated with Great Valu Markets, a small cooperative of about 13 stores in NJ, PA, DE, MD, NC, and VA. This is Nasser's latest supermarket opening in New Jersey, with past stores in South Amboy (2013-2015), Elizabeth (2017-2018), Middlesex (April 2019-September 2019), and West Milford (2020-2022). So while this is far from the owner's first venture into grocery, it's also not a great track record, with his longest-open store being open for just about two years. I visited Elizabeth and West Milford while they were in business, and I saw both stores start fairly strong and quickly deteriorate...