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Old World Food Market Owner: Andrew Poma Jr. Opened:  2009 Cooperative:  none Location:  40 NY-59, Nyack, NY Photographed:  March 8, 2023 Welcome to the Old World Food Market of Nyack! This spectacular store is actually just 15,000 square feet, although it feels much larger -- and built around a 9,000 square foot or so barrel-roof building. I'm not positive what the building was originally, as it has some characteristics that resemble an A&P, but there was also definitely an A&P across the street -- and both were built between 1953 and 1964. Old World Food Market opened up here in 2009 after a gorgeous renovation to turn the space into a roomy gourmet supermarket. We enter in the front right corner of the store to bakery and prepared foods on the right side of the store. Massive hot and cold food bars line the left side of that aisle. Meat and seafood counters are at the back of the first aisle, with dairy and frozen in the rest of the back part of the stor...

Rockland Great Farm Owner: unknown Opened:  2016 under current ownership; 2003 previously Cooperative:  none Location:  406 Nanuet Mall S, Nanuet, NY Photographed:  August 12, 2022 Welcome to the Rockland Great Farm! The rather unassuming 5,000 square foot greengrocer shop actually has a very exciting secret hiding inside it. Before we get there, the store is mostly a produce market, with produce taking up most of the sales floor and a small, apparently closed seafood counter in the back left corner. A small grocery, dairy, and frozen selection is on the left side of the store. Can anyone spot the supermarket history here? That's right, this store somehow has an original Grand Union Clean, Fresh & Good ceiling fixture in it! It's an incredibly difficult thing to photograph, but a really impressive one. This was my first time seeing one in person. It's amazingly well preserved! How many others still exist out there? This is the only one I can think of off the top...

  Welcome (back) to Rockland County! This is now our third time here, having visited before with a selection of stores across the county, but this time we'll be seeing all different stores we've never checked out before, including some new ones. We'll start in Suffern in the southwestern part of the county, then pass through Spring Valley, Nanuet, and Nyack along route 59 on our way east to the Hudson River, which separates Rockland County from its eastern neighbor Westchester County. Then we're turning north and moving inland a bit for Pomona and Garnerville, then along the river for Haverstraw, West Haverstraw, and Stony Point. This county has a large Orthodox Jewish population, as does much of the Hudson Valley, so we'll be seeing some kosher stores along with a variety of other supermarkets around the towns. We'll begin tomorrow with a former supermarket on  Grocery Archaeology !

Nyack Fresh Market Owner: Wilson Bermeo Opened:  February 20, 2023 Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  119 Main St, Nyack, NY Photographed:  March 8, 2023 In Orange, we saw the transition of a Krasdale-affiliated CTown to a Key Food-affiliated Universal Food Markets. Key Food is growing in a lot of ways, including conversions like that, but they've also been opening a lot of new stores around the tri-state area in recent years. The 15,000 square foot Nyack Fresh Market is one of their latest openings, having opened in late February in the middle of the small down on the west shore of the Mario Cuomo Bridge (formerly the Tappan Zee) across the Hudson. A former theater building was converted to this supermarket, which despite its small size feels very spacious and complete. It's also a beautiful store. We enter on the left side of the store to the deli-bakery department, and although it appears they don't bake in-store, they have a lot of baked goods and a lot of ...

Back to Earth Natural Foods Owner:  Richard Trupp Opened:  1996 Cooperative:  none Location:  306 S Main St, New City, NY Photographed:  March 2019 This 6400 square foot natural food store is the southernmost grocery store in New City, with a former A&P , a DeCicco , and a ShopRite to the north along Main Street. It's a very nice place, and it feels very friendly. Inside, there's a produce department, grocery/dairy/frozen, deli, and cheese/prepared foods. All organic produce, if I remember correctly. Back to Earth does not use a storebrand. Very nicely stocked! The deli and prepared foods department is clearly the main focus of the store. That's all for New City! We're heading over to nearby Hillcrest about three miles west for a store over on The Market Report tomorrow.