Grocery Archaeology

Original Tenant: Kelly's Market Address: 601 US-46, Kenvil, Roxbury, NJ Opened:  unknown Closed:  2020 Later Tenants:  Kenvil Liquor & Food Store Photographed:  May 2020 & June 2021 This small grocery/convenience store is just east on 46 from our other post today, the former Kenvil IGA . It looks like this used to be a bit more of a supermarket and was cut down to a convenience/liquor store over time (likely by its current owners, who took over in 1995). The store in late 2020 or 2021 was converted to the Kenvil Liquor Wine & Food Store with a logo clearly designed to rip off Krauszer's , a well-known convenience store chain. It's unclear whether the ownership changed, but there's not much evidence that it did. So these days, the store is decidedly a liquor store first and then a convenience store and really not a grocery store anymore. Tomorrow, we have our two final stores of the greater Dover group in Randolph on  The Market Report !

Original Tenant:  Jack's Super IGA Address: 659 US-46, Kenvil, Roxbury, NJ Opened:  ca. 1995 Closed:  ca. 2000 Later Tenants:  subdivided Photographed:  May 2020 The Kenvil IGA, owned by Jack Shakoor's HAJ Supermarkets, opened in the 1990s and closed by around 2000. We had a bit more detail on HAJ Supermarkets back in Boonton , and this store was short-lived enough that it never became a Foodtown when the other HAJ stores switched (North Arlington, Caldwell). I am unsure exactly how the IGA would've been set up or whether they would've taken up the entire 30,000 square foot building, and I certainly have never seen a picture of the IGA in business. I'm also unclear on whether the building was built new for IGA or was previously a different tenant. And another thing I'm unclear on... why did this store fail so quickly? HAJ's other stores seem to do rather well and when there are closures, such as Boonton, they're usually directly due to a competitor open...