Less than four weeks after they closed their Red Bank store, Sickles Market just shut down their mainstay location in Little Silver, too:
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LITTLE SILVER, NJ — Less than four weeks after they closed their satellite store in Red Bank, Sickles Market just abruptly shut down their mainstay location in Little Silver Monday, where the family-owned business had been in operation for more than 100 years.
This was reported by Red Bank Green and the Asbury Park Press, both of which report a sign reading “So sorry, we are closed” was posted on the Sickles door in Little Silver Monday.
“So sorry, we are closed. Further updates will be shared soon,” read the sign.
The family-owned Sickles Market has been in operation in this area since 1908. Nobody picked up the phone when Patch called the store at 9 a.m. Tuesday, and their voice greeting said they are closed.
Bob Sickles Jr., the third-generation owner of Sickles Market, spoke exclusively to the Asbury Park Press about why the closed their main store in Little Silver. On Monday, the day it closed, he told the newspaper:
“Between COVID, the lockdown and the new store (in Red Bank), the last three years have been pretty difficult for us and we didn’t quite make it, so we’re closing down, hoping to reopen again soon, but I don’t know how soon that is.”
On Feb. 15, the owners of Sickles Market announced they closed their Red Bank location, which had been there since 2020.
At the time, the family said Sickles Market in Little Silver and Bottles by Sickles in Red Bank would remain open. Now, the only thing still in business is their liquor store.
When they closed their Red Bank store, the Sickles family said publicly: “The repercussions of the pandemic never allowed us to fully turn this location into what we had dreamed.”
“To say we are heartbroken does not quite cover it,” the Sickles family said last month.
Red Bank Green is reporting that Metrovation, the developer that owns the Anderson Building in Red Bank, the landlord Sickles rented from, has since sued the market for more than $200,000 in unpaid rent.
Sickles Market In Red Bank Closed; Thursday Was Last Day, Say Owners (Feb. 15)
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