Grocery Archaeology

Original Tenant: A&P Address:  Barclay Farms Shopping Center, 1409 Marlton Pk E, Cherry Hill, NJ Opened:  1960 Closed:  1979 Later Tenants:  Plus Discount Foods / Lew's Clover Butcher Shop (1979-1982) > Kingsway Hardware > Drug Emporium > Asian Food Markets (2005-2018) Photographed:  January 2021 The Barclay Farms Shopping Center opened with an A&P in 1960 in the Barclay section of Cherry Hill Township. The A&P was open until June 1979, when it closed and was subdivided with an A&P-owned Plus Discount Foods taking most of the space and Lew's Clover Butcher Shop taking the rest of the 19,000 square foot space. It was all later converted to a hardware store, then Drug Emporium, and then back to a supermarket when Asian Food Markets  took over the space in 2005. They lost their lease in 2018, and it seems they weren't interested in leaving but were forced out. Planet Fitness has opened up in the space as of 2021, which I caught right...

Original Tenant: Thriftway Address: 660 Plainsboro Rd, Plainsboro, NJ Opened:  unknown Closed:  unknown Later Tenants:  Asian Food Markets (??-2020) Photographed:  February 2021 Yesterday we saw the brand-new Asian Food Market in Plainsboro Plaza , and they moved out of this 20,000 square foot location a little more than a mile east of Plainsboro Plaza. If memory serves me, this store was built as a Thriftway in the 80s (or possibly a Shop n Bag?) and later became an AFM around 2000. This store had closed just about 6 months before I visited, right before the new one opened. Quite the difference between the new store's interior and this one's interior (see here and here ). So far, I haven't heard of any tenants (grocery or otherwise) that are interested in this space. Unlikely, I think, that another supermarket would be interested in the space. Here's the entrance/exit on the left side of the storefront. I'm unclear on what the layout was, but I believe the grand...