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Dale's Market Owner: Ed Campbell Opened:  unknown Cooperative:  none Location:  66 NJ-94, Blairstown, NJ Photographed:  January 2021 It's time for our second (and final) Dale's Market, and you can see Branchville here ; and it's also time for our third (and final) Blairstown store! This 5500 square foot store is a great little supermarket in downtown Blairstown and doesn't seem to be all that hurt by the large ACME (and former A&P, which moved from up route 94 ). Dale's is a full supermarket, despite its small size. We have produce in the first aisle with deli and butcher on the back wall, with frozen and dairy on the right side. This store feels a little more like a traditional supermarket than Branchville, which feels like an overgrown general store. That's not to say that this is a less fun place, or that it's a large store. Nice chalkboard signage for the departments! As we see, there's a little bit of everything in here, and there are roug...

Dale's Market Owner: Ed Campbell Opened:  1983 Cooperative:  none Location:  396 US-206, Branchville, NJ Photographed:  July 2020 We arrive in the tiny Sussex County town of Branchville, with a population of just over 800 (plus one grocery store, of course). Is that the smallest town we've ever visited on the blog? Maybe. This can be debated, but let me pose the following claim: this is the smallest town in New Jersey that has a full supermarket. The only smaller town in the state with a lower population and any kind of substantial grocery store is Stockton, which we'll be seeing in a little less than three weeks, but I'd be hard-pressed to call their store a full supermarket. Meanwhile, Dale's is just 5,000 square feet, but contains a full produce, deli, butcher, dairy, and frozen selection. (Stockton's population is about 500.) It looks like this space may have been a long-ago general store or the like, which was expanded many times. Dale's Market uses th...