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suzanneng
Citizen
Username: Suzanneng
Post Number: 273
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 7:50 am: |     |
According to:
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/essex/index....62091370240.xml
(Pathmark article is the second article)
Pathmark closing after 29-year run
WEST ORANGE: The Pathmark supermarket in West Orange will close its doors on Feb. 25, after nearly 30 years selling groceries in the township.
...company spokesman Rich Savner said the 40,000-square-foot store space was no longer large enough to accommodate the supermarket chain's needs or compete with the larger ShopRite supermarket down the street.
... pharmacy has closed and he said that shelves will be sparse for the next week as the store tries to unload its remaining stock.
Township officials said they are working with the shopping center's landlord to bring in a new business to take Pathmark's place, preferably another supermarket. One retailer being discussed is Whole Foods Market, a Texas-based supermarket chain specializing in natural and organic foods. |
lnt
Citizen
Username: Lnt
Post Number: 72
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 11:18 am: | |
Interesting. Just to reiterate, it's the WEST Orange Pathmark--the one on Prospect. (When I read this at first, I thought it was the one in SO on Valley St.) |
Taylor M
Citizen
Username: Anotherusername
Post Number: 303
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 1:58 pm: | |
The one in South Orange is about the same size, isn't it? Do you think it might be next? |
suzanneng
Citizen
Username: Suzanneng
Post Number: 276
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 4:05 pm: | |
I have no idea, Taylor M... I would think not, because there is no other large supermarket nearby, as there is with the West Orange PM (which while not nearby, has the Essex Green Shoprite as competition).
I did like that the WO PathMark used to be open 24/7 -- good place to run in for medicine at 9 pm on a Sunday night. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 4974
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 4:38 pm: | |
The S.O. Pathmark shares a parking lot with the A&P, a supermarket of comparable size. |
Taylor M
Citizen
Username: Anotherusername
Post Number: 304
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 12:17 am: | |
My mom just told me they're going to put a Walmart where the West Orange Pathmark is. I told her "No way" because there is a Kmart right there." My mom insists it's true and said employees of Sears were talking about it. Anyone else hear this? |
Dego Diva
Citizen
Username: Fmingione
Post Number: 256
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 1:10 am: | |
Wouldn't a Wegman's be perfect there? |
Mark Fuhrman
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1330
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 7:11 am: | |
Walmart requires a 16+ acre site for a 75,000-100,000 square foot store. Wegmans also needs close to this. As noted above, even most "traditional" grocery stores these days look for 50,000-55,000 square foot stores, plus large parking fields. For those of us who hate Home Depot in Union, Lowes also needs 55,000 square feet of store space.
On the other hand, Walmart does not worry about K-Mart being anywhere near them. Walmart assumes they will beat the pants off of their competitors, and they usually are right. For what it is worth, Lowes purposefully looks to locate near existing Home Depots. |
millie amoresano
Citizen
Username: Millieamoresano
Post Number: 202
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 5:12 pm: | |
I heard that K-Mart was closing as well in West Orange. |
suzanneng
Citizen
Username: Suzanneng
Post Number: 277
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 7:07 pm: | |
so , if the eyeglass place and a liquor store (which I think are the only 2 stores between Kmart and Pathmark) could be relocated, *IS* the building large enough to meet the needs for a Walmart, Lowes, or Wegmans? |
Taylor M
Citizen
Username: Anotherusername
Post Number: 306
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 8:37 pm: | |
Millie-
Funny you mention the KMart will also close! I told my mom the only way they'd have enough room for a Walmart is for the rest of the stores in the stripe mall to close.
Where does that leave Wendy's and the liguor store?
How many people remember the old KMart being Korvettes? Then Caldor? Then Bradlees? Before it became KMart?
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millie amoresano
Citizen
Username: Millieamoresano
Post Number: 203
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 9:39 am: | |
I remember Korvettes and Caldor's I dont think there was ever a Bradlees in that space but I could be wrong. My mother lives in West Orange and she heard that the K-Mart was closing also. |
millie amoresano
Citizen
Username: Millieamoresano
Post Number: 204
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 9:43 am: | |
Also I dont know how true it is but she also heard that Sears was taking that space. |
Bill P
Citizen
Username: Mrincredible
Post Number: 61
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 12:27 pm: | |
Well, since Kmart and Sears are merging does that make sense? Would they open a Sears where Kmart already exists, or once was?
If a Wal-Mart goes in there (West Orange) will they leave Crescent golf range alone? I don't know how close they'll put their stores. |
suzanneng
Citizen
Username: Suzanneng
Post Number: 279
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 1:25 pm: | |
They could take Wendy's -- but leave Staples and Rag Shop alone! I wouldn't mind a SuperWalmart or a Wegman's - tocompete with Essex green Shoprite... then I wouldn't have to go to Livingston for groceries (I don't go to the EG Shoprite) .
Kmart was a Caldor immediately prior to becoming a KMart. I do not believe a Bradlees was ever there. |
Taylor M
Citizen
Username: Anotherusername
Post Number: 307
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 3:13 pm: | |
I'm pretty sure there was a Bradlees for a few years. |
suzanneng
Citizen
Username: Suzanneng
Post Number: 281
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 21, 2005 - 5:23 pm: | |
Maybe before Caldor? |
CageyD
Citizen
Username: Cageyd
Post Number: 233
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 12:35 pm: | |
It is just staggering to me that all around us - West Orange, Orange, East Orange and even Newark there are new grocery stores going in - new multi-use buildings going up and here in South Orange we get excuses about developers agreements, and other such nonesense. Arrrggghhh!!
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