The Independent Edition

Geraci's Market Owner: Andres Garcia Opened:  2001 under current ownership Cooperative:  Krasdale Foods Location:  16 Mill St, Newburgh, NY Photographed:  November 22, 2023 Welcome to downtown Newburgh! The city, right on the Hudson River, is around 50 miles north of New York City. We saw the Adams and the Market Fresh outside of town recently, and now we're taking a look at two small stores in downtown Newburgh. Geraci's Market has been here in Newburgh for a long time, although I couldn't find an exact opening year -- but the sign alone tells us it's been a long time. It's been under its current ownership since 2001. The store looks to be about 4,000 square feet, and inside, it hasn't been changed for many decades, I'm sure. Frozen foods, meat, and produce are in the first aisle, with a tiny butcher window on the right side (you can see the space where it is below). Packaged meats and refrigerated produce line the back wall, with a few grocery aisle...

Market Fresh Supermarket Owner: Diego Sanchez Opened:  2002 as Associated; 2018 as Market Fresh Cooperative:  Allegiance Retail Services Location:  52 NY-17K, Newburgh, NY Photographed:  November 22, 2023 Welcome to the Market Fresh of Newburgh! It's just a bit east of yesterday's Adams Fairacre Farms , but a very different supermarket. If Adams is a sprawling gourmet market and garden center, Market Fresh is a compact but well-appointed straightforward supermarket. Then again, at 30,500 square feet, it's not exactly small, but the 80,000 square foot Adams complex dwarfs it. There are three Market Fresh stores affiliated with Allegiance Retail Services (which also runs Foodtown , Pathmark , and Green Way stores), the other two being in Poughkeepsie 16 miles or so north of here, and Middletown , about as far west. All three were previously Associated Supermarkets, then joined Allegiance and switched to Market Fresh in 2018. This one here in Newburgh recently got a ...

Kobacker's Market Owner:  Frank Milano Opened:  1999 Cooperative:  IGA Location: 570 N Main St, Brewster, NY Photographed:  May 2019 Our final stop on the Northern Westchester - Putnam group is this store just four miles from the Connecticut border. It's quite a different story from the DeCicco & Sons we saw yesterday, being just 10,000 square feet, or a quarter of the size of the DeCicco. The store is actually a barrel-roof building, with multiple expansions. It's hard to tell whether that part to the right was originally a barn or if it's just designed to look like that. Heading in, we find an extremely pleasant and well-taken-care-of small-town supermarket. And the barrel roof is exposed inside, with wood beams extending across the approximately 55' wide main store. The barn section to the right holds dairy, beverages, and beer, with produce and the rest of dairy in the first aisle. Meat lines the back wall with deli in the back co...

Red Mills Market Owner:  Junior Zayed Dabashi Opened:  2018 under current ownership, 1960 under original ownership Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  575 NY-6N, Mahopac Falls, NY Photographed:  May 2019 Grand Union stores in Beacon , Mahopac , and Milford were taken over by a Key Food operator whose identity I haven't quite tracked down yet when the stores closed in 2001. This operator sold these stores to fellow Key Food operator Junior Zayed Dabashi, whose family owned Key Food stores in New York City. Well, while Beacon and Milford are going strong (in fact, when I visited Milford it was so packed that Dabashi himself was on a register), Mahopac was bought out by Stop & Shop in 2016, then promptly demolished to make way for a new store we'll tour tomorrow. Shortly thereafter, as luck would have it, Red Mills Market owners Ron and Regina Jedlicka announced they were retiring and selling the business. The Dabashi family quickly jum...