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Costco Submits Plans For Route 17 Site Of Shuttered Stop & Shop In Paramus, Mayor Says Costco Submits Plans For Route 17 Site Of Shuttered Stop & Shop In Paramus, Mayor Says
Costco Submits Plans For Route 17 Site Of Shuttered Stop & Shop In Paramus, Mayor Says The future of the shuttered Stop & Shop at the border of Ridgewood on Route 17 in Paramus is becoming clearer. On Thursday, Aug. 22, Paramus Mayor Chris DiPiazza announced Costco submitted plans for the site. Stop & Shop shuttered in 2022 while Kmart closed in 2021. "Well, it is official," the mayor wrote on Facebook. "As of this morning Costco Wholesale has submitted their plans to the Planning Board for a location on Rt. 17S (the Stop & Shop/KMart)." There will not be a gas station, the mayor added. "This location in its heyday was home to two major retailers/supermarkets, …

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by Cecilia Levine
Business
Trampoline Park Replacing Shuttered NJ Pathmark, Kmart Sets Opening Date Trampoline Park Replacing Shuttered NJ Pathmark, Kmart Sets Opening Date
Trampoline Park Replacing Shuttered NJ Pathmark, Kmart Sets Opening Date Urban Air Trampoline & Adventure Park is set to open its newest New Jersey location this Saturday, Dec. 9. The indoor park is located at 3010 Route 35 in Hazlet. Urban Air has leased a space that formerly housed Pathmark and Kmart in the Hazlet Town Center. Billed as the world's largest indoor amusement company, its new center spans nearly 40,000 square feet. The new adventure park offers a full line-up of activities, such as an intense ropes course, APEX trampolines, the Runway Tumble Track that offers flexibility to those who flip, handspring and cartwheel down its track and Laser t…

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by Jon Craig
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Fiery Deaths Prompt Recall For Millions Of Dehumidifiers: CPSC Fiery Deaths Prompt Recall For Millions Of Dehumidifiers: CPSC
Fiery Deaths Prompt Recall For Millions Of Dehumidifiers: Cpsc After multiple deaths, 450 fires, 2,000 incidents of overheating, and $19 million in property damage – millions of dehumidifiers are being recalled, according to a release by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Aug. 16, 2023.  The dehumidifiers were manufactured by Gree Electric Appliances, of China, and were sold under major brand names: Danby, De’Longhi, Fedders, Fellini, Frigidaire, GE, Gree, Kenmore, Norpole, Premiere, Seabreeze, SoleusAir and SuperClima, the CPSC explained.  "Consumers should stop using the recalled dehumidifiers and contact Gree for a full refund,…

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by Jillian Pikora
Business
Attention Kmart Shoppers: Final Jersey Location Shutting Down Attention Kmart Shoppers: Final Jersey Location Shutting Down
Attention Kmart Shoppers: Final Jersey Location Shutting Down It's soon going to be the end of an era in New Jersey. Kmart is closing its final location in the Garden State on Sept. 30, a source confirmed to Daily Voice. The Westwood Kmart, which was one of the last three standing Kmarts in the country, has signs proclaiming that everything must go. At its peak in the 1990s, Kmart has upwards of 2,400 stores and 350,000 employees throughout the US. Fans looking to get their Kmart fix will have to travel to either Long Island or Miami.

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by Sam Barron
Business
High-Tech Go-Kart Track Brings New Life To Shuttered South Jersey Kmart Store High-Tech Go-Kart Track Brings New Life To Shuttered South Jersey Kmart Store
High-Tech Go-Kart Track Brings New Life To Shuttered South Jersey Kmart Store A former Central Jersey Kmart store is in the process of being transformed into a larger-than-life go-kart track. The building at 328 S. White Horse Pike in the Berlin Shopping Center of Berlin will soon boast 32 electric go-karts, arcades, a ninja course and rock climbing. "This new FEC is bound to breathe life back into this shopping center and the local community," said vendor DFX on Facebook. According to NJ Advance Media, company is leasing about two-thirds of the 92.000-square-foot Kmart building, which closed in 2014. DFX is also providing video systems, lighting and audio, the out…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
And Then There Was One: 2nd To Last NJ Kmart Store Closing And Then There Was One: 2nd To Last NJ Kmart Store Closing
And Then There Was One: 2nd To Last NJ Kmart Store Closing Attention, Kmart shoppers: Get your last "blue light specials" this week in Middlesex County. New Jersey's second-to-last Kmart store will be closing permanently on Saturday, April 16 in Avenel, NJ Advance Media reports. The store is located at 1550 St. Georges Ave. in Delco Plaza. The Garden State’s very last Kmart will be in Westwood, Bergen County. A Kmart in Kearny, Hudson County, closed last year. After Avenel’s store closure, there will only be three remaining Kmart stores in the United States: Westwood, Long Island and Miami, the outlet said. Click here for the complete s…

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by Jon Craig
Real Estate
North Jersey Stop & Shop Shutters North Jersey Stop & Shop Shutters
North Jersey Stop & Shop Shutters A longtime North Jersey Stop & Shop store has shuttered, NorthJersey.com reports. The "difficult" decision to close the Route 17 store in Paramus was made from a financial perspective after a review of store performance, a Stop & Shop communications manager told the news outlet. The store was an Acme in the 1980s and a Grand Union in the 1990s, before Stop & Shop took over in the early 2000s, according to the Acme Style Blog.  The borough's Planning Board in 2019 approved a renovation project for the Stop & Shop store -- as well as the KMart store on the…

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by Cecilia Levine
Business
NJ Target Store Weeks Away From Opening NJ Target Store Weeks Away From Opening
NJ Target Store Weeks Away From Opening Another former Kmart store is being replaced by a new Target store -- this time in Atlantic County.  The newest Target to land in Somers Point is set to open this month in, NJ.com says citing news reports. Kmart vacated its anchor store at Somers Point Plaza, a popular shopping center off of Route 9.  Target Corp also has plans to replace a shuttered Kmart store in Wall, Monmouth County, and Kearney in Hudson County. A shuttered Kmart store in Mercer County is being replaced by a popular discount Grocery Outlet store as reported here by Daily Voice. 

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by Jon Craig
Business
California-Based 'Grocery Outlet' Opens 1st NJ Store, Replacing Shuttered South Jersey Kmart California-Based 'Grocery Outlet' Opens 1st NJ Store, Replacing Shuttered South Jersey Kmart
California-Based 'Grocery Outlet' Opens 1st NJ Store, Replacing Shuttered South Jersey Kmart A discount grocery chain plans to open its first New Jersey store this fall, reports said. Grocery Outlet is moving into vacated Kmart space in Mercer County, according to JerseyDigs.com. Kmart closed its former Hamilton Township store in December 2019. Based in San Francisco, Grocery Outlet will replace the former Kmart in Hamilton Plaza at 1061 White Horse Ave.  The former Kmart store at Hamilton Township in Mercer County closed for good in the fall of 2019.Google Maps Grocery Outlet stores are best known on the West Coast, but the chain began opening stores in Pennsylvania, after b…

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by Jon Craig
News
Target To Replace These Shuttered NJ Kmarts Target To Replace These Shuttered NJ Kmarts
Target To Replace These Shuttered NJ Kmarts Another Kmart store has closed its doors leaving just two left in all of New Jersey. The Kearny store on Passaic Avenue closed on May 2, NJ Advance Media reports. The storefront will be replaced by a Target store, according to Target's list of upcoming locations.  Target will also be replacing the Kmart that closed in Wall on Route 35, and the one in Somers Point on 250 New Road. Only two Kmart stores remain in New Jersey: One in Avenel and the other in Westwood.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Sears To Shutter Hackensack Store Leaving Only 1 NJ Location Standing Sears To Shutter Hackensack Store Leaving Only 1 NJ Location Standing
Sears To Shutter Hackensack Store Leaving Only 1 NJ Location Standing The Sears in Hackensack is one of many that will soon close permanently -- leaving only one last Sears store standing in New Jersey. The chain had added two temporary closing jobs at the Hackensack store to its online database as of June 30 -- two days after the Rockaway Townsquare Mall listed its own closing positions. Available positions include backroom and cashier. Sears has been closing stores across the country since 2018, when the company -- which also owns Kmart -- filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Sears within the Newport Center Mall in Jersey City is the last store…

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by Valerie Musson
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Sears To Shutter Rockaway Townsquare Mall Location, Closing Jobs Available Sears To Shutter Rockaway Townsquare Mall Location, Closing Jobs Available
Sears To Shutter Rockaway Townsquare Mall Location, Closing Jobs Available The Sears at Rockaway Town Square Mall is just one of many that will soon close permanently in yet another Coronavirus-related blow to the brick-and-mortar retail landscape. The Sears in Hackensack will also shutter, according to closing jobs listed June 30. The retail chain had added four closing jobs at the Rockaway store to its online database as of June 29. Available positions include home appliance sales, cashiers, hardware sales and backroom. Calls placed to the store were not answered. Sears has been closing stores across the country since 2018, when the company -- which also …

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by Valerie Musson
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West Orange Kmart Closing Next Year, Liquidation Sale To Start In December West Orange Kmart Closing Next Year, Liquidation Sale To Start In December
West Orange Kmart Closing Next Year, Liquidation Sale To Start In December The holding company that owns Sears and Kmart announced that dozens of the struggling retailers' stores will be closed down for good in February 2020, including the Kmart store on Prospect Avenue in West Orange, USA Today reported.   The once ubiquitous retailers have struggled to stay afloat since the turn of the century, with more than 3,500 Kmart and Sears stores closing down in the last 15 years.  A total of 51 Sears stores and 45 Kmart locations across the United States will shut down in the latest round of closures.  A going-out-of-business sale is scheduled to be…

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by Paul Milo
Business
REPORT: Kmart Shutters Wayne Store REPORT: Kmart Shutters Wayne Store
Report: Kmart Shutters Wayne Store The Kmart in Wayne is among the four latest locations to shutter, according to a recent report. The Hamburg Turnpike store, along with the Trenton, Wall and Somers Point locations, will have liquidation sales in mid-September, Kmart/Sears spokesman Larry Costello said. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice has not been filed by the company with the state.  Sears Holdings, a Kmart parent company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and has been closing several stores across the U.S. -- more locally in Elmwood Park, Willowbrook Mall, Paramus Park and more. Click here f…

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by Cecilia Levine