New SuperFresh In Highland Park Will Open Friday

HIGHLAND PARK, NJ — The new SuperFresh in Highland Park opens this Friday.

The SuperFresh is located at 424 Raritan Avenue, at the same location as the former Stop & Shop.

The store will open at 8 a.m. Friday, and there is a ribbon cutting scheduled for 10:00 a.m.; all are welcome to attend. The grand opening celebration will feature samples, demos and special sales, as well as refreshments and entertainment for the whole family.

To the dismay of thousands of residents, the Highland Park Stop & Shop closed in March 2023. There is simply no other nearby grocery store in Highland Park; the nearest food store is a kosher grocery store on Rt. 27 on the Edison border.

The opening of the SuperFresh will restore a general supermarket to the center of Highland Park. Since the 1980s, there has been a grocery store in that location on Raritan Avenue.

"I'm doing everything in my power to work with them to stay," then-Highland Park Mayor Gayle Brill Mittler told Patch in 2022, when news first broke that the Stop & Shop would close. She said she was "deeply disappointed" by the corporate decision made by Stop & Shop.

"There isn't a supermarket like the Stop & Shop in town that provided food for all of our residents. I'm frankly disappointed and I am exploring all options. I will do everything in my power to make sure they stay," Mittler said at the time. "I am an eternal optimist and I'm going to do everything in my power to stop this. I am also not ruling out the possibility of another grocery store moving in there."

First report: Highland Park Stop & Shop Will Close Sometime In 2023, Store Confirms (2022)