The Market Report

Garden Fresh Market Opened: October 23, 2024 Owner:  Wilson Bermeo Previous Tenants:  CVS Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  274 Old Nyack Tpk, Spring Valley, NY Photographed: October 25, 2024 How many supermarkets have we seen that have made their home in former drugstores? Ten or twenty years ago, it would've been the other way around -- lots of drugstores that had opened in former supermarkets. Now, the trend has flipped, as more drugstores close and independent supermarkets pop up around the area in former supermarkets. Spring Valley, New York is a city of around 35,000 (okay, it's actually a village within the town of Ramapo) right on the New York/New Jersey border in Rockland County, about seven miles west of the Mario Cuomo bridge, formerly the Tappan Zee. In an area of Rockland County with a large Orthodox Jewish population , parts of Spring Valley are home to large Latin, Caribbean, and African immigrant communities. Two miles north of the New Jersey state line,

Heavenly Foodmarket Opened: mid-October 2024 Owner:  unknown Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Krasdale Foods Location:  311 11th Ave, Hudson Yards/West Chelsea, Manhattan, NY Photographed:  October 23, 2024 Amazon Fresh promises an easier, higher-tech shopping experience, but this store goes a bit further: shopping here is no less than Heavenly. Heavenly appears to be a small chain of delis and convenience stores across New York City, but they've opened what appears to be their first supermarket near Hudson Yards in far western Chelsea. What draws most people to this location is probably the High Line , a converted elevated train line that's now a walking path. It's from a High Line bridge that I took the above picture, and don't worry, when I was in this neighborhood, I did walk the whole High Line. But as cool as it would be, this isn't a rail-trail blog, this is a supermarket blog. So let's tour the new Heavenly Foodmarket at 11th Avenue and 30th Stree

Amazon Fresh Opened: August 23, 2024 Owner:  Amazon Previous Tenants:  Kmart Cooperative:  none Location:  2 Memorial Dr, Lodi, NJ Photographed:  October 4, 2024 You know what the worst part is of the ongoing train wreck that is Amazon Fresh? It's not that Amazon has sat on unopened locations for so long that other businesses in the same strip malls have been struggling. It's not that their incompetent management has left dozens of towns and neighborhoods with subpar food options. It's not even that they're taking up valuable supermarket retail space that could have gone to more skilled operators. It's that every time they open a new location , I am hopeful. I think maybe they've figured it out. And by the time I leave the store, I just have to laugh at how terrible it was. It's an emotional roller-coaster for me, and it's quite inconvenient. Can you stop doing that? Thanks. Of course, here in Lodi, I was chuckling well before even stepping foot into t