Amazon Fresh in Woodland Park NJ: When is it opening?

It’s been 15 months since Woodland Park’s Planning Board approved Amazon Fresh’s plan to move into a defunct Fairway Market site at Route 46 and Browertown Road.

The prospect of a new tenant at the Kohl’s shopping center was more than welcome. Woodland Park officials were hopeful that by early this year, an Amazon Fresh would be open for business.

Instead the store is still under construction. 

A visit on Wednesday showed a facade that’s been completed, but no apparent other work is underway. The doors were closed, no workers were in sight and the parking lot was empty. A sign on the door instructed PSE&G to call when its workers arrive. 

“They said they are having supply chain issues,” Woodland Park Mayor Keith Kazmark said of Amazon.

The Woodland Park store was expected to be among the first of  Amazon’s new line of supermarkets, which feature 21st-century innovations like Dash Carts, which don’t require a visit to a cashier. Shoppers just grab items and bag as they go; the carts tally up the cost.