184 Rivervale Rd, River Vale, NJ

Original Tenant: Honey Dew Markets
Address: 184 Rivervale Rd, River Vale, NJ

Opened: 1950s

Closed: unknown

Later Tenants: subdivided

Photographed: December 2020

You'd hardly know it, but we're looking at a former 10,000 square foot barrel-roof supermarket here in downtown River Vale, which also had an A&P. This building has now been expanded by about 5,000 square feet and the only hint that it was ever a supermarket is the brick tower, which we can see to the left above. The store was occupied by Honey Dew Markets, a local chain of about five stores. I have a vague recollection that the chain then sold to Inserra Supermarkets, a ShopRite operator, and that would make sense if this became a ShopRite that later moved just to the south to Emerson, where the Inserras currently operate a ShopRite in a former Valley Fair department store. But the best part? We have a picture of this store as a Honey Dew! Check it out here. That's from a feature that The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's main newspaper, does every year with vintage supermarkets. Up next, we're going to head down to Emerson to tour the ShopRite on The Market Report tomorrow!