Special Report: Peekskill Supermarket - Peekskill, NY

Peekskill Supermarket
Opened: 1969

Owner: Bermeo Group

Previous Tenants: A&P (1959-2015) > Key Food (2016-2017) > Peekskill Green Grocers (2017-2019) > Apple Farm (2020-2025)

Cooperative: Key Food Stores

Location: 20 Welcher Ave, Peekskill, NY

Photographed: July 10, 2026

The newest addition to Peekskill, New York's grocery scene is a freshly-opened (the official grand opening was today, in fact, but the store has been in the soft opening phase since July 1) independent in a building that's been home to many grocery stores over the years. You'd hardly know it, but this building started out as an A&P back in 1969, later getting an expansion in 1975. The original store was around 18,000 square feet, and the expansion brought it to around 34,000 square feet. A&P stayed here, with Sav-A-Center signage intact, up through the chain's bankruptcy. Key Food bought this store in the auction, and cut the sales floor back to about 20,000 square feet, opening in the spring of 2016. But about a year later, Key Food closed and it became Peekskill Green Grocers. At first, that store was affiliated with Key Food, but then it switched to ASG before closing too in late 2019. Then a local chain of greengrocers called Apple Farm moved in, thoroughly renovating the space. They opened in late 2020 and lasted until 2025. In other words, since A&P's multi-decade run here, no other operator has been able to make it work. Now, there's a new operator who thinks they can.

That would be the Bermeo Group, a small group of independent supermarkets in Rockland County. (See the Garden Fresh Market and Nyack Fresh Market, along with a couple others.) Bermeo Group is a family company, being run by father-and-daughter team Wilson Bermeo and Karina Zeor. But Bermeo actually isn't the only Wilson who runs a supermarket in town. Wilson Narvaez owns a CTown and a Save A Lot in Peekskill, and is working on building a Cosmo's Fresh Market not far from this store.

So let's talk about Peekskill Supermarket! First up, is this a forgotten decor package straight out of Grand Union in the 1980s? Nope, brand-new, joining some other new stores I've seen with decor that's new but feels retro. That (probably) isn't the Grand Union font, but it may as well be. The red and white color scheme also feels old-school despite the fact that everything here is brand-new.

We enter to the produce department on the right side, with service butcher at the back and meats lining the back wall. Service seafood is in the back-left corner, frozen is roughly in the middle of the aisles, and dairy is in the last aisle on the left side. Deli, bakery, and hot food are in the front-left corner, and there's a seating area beyond the registers on the front wall.

That's roughly the same layout Apple Farm had, from the pictures I can find, though Key Food and Green Grocers had a different setup. (How is it that the new Peekskill Supermarket looks older than that Green Grocers interior?) Here's a look inside Key Food. Though Key Food only lasted about a year here, the Bermeo stores are affiliated with Key Food, so the cooperative is back even if not under the same name.

This meat department is where Apple Farm had their seafood counter, it looks like. Key Food and Green Grocers were flipped, with the produce on the left side, and that's probably how A&P was set up.

You can read a lot more about this store and its owners in this very detailed article from the Peekskill Herald. It's worth a read to see what they're hoping to accomplish here, and how they feel this attempt will be different from all the previous operators of this supermarket.

A lot of the fixtures are new here, as Apple Farm wasn't a full supermarket and Bermeo has a lot more to offer here. This isn't a large supermarket, but it's actually the largest one the Bermeo Group owns. Still, it's clear this is an old building in some ways, such as the concrete floor (which really shows age).

This store is on the far southern end of Peekskill, so it's a bit removed from the downtown area where the CTown is. It's closer to some of the suburbs south of Peekskill. While the focus here is clearly on the Latin foods, it's also a full-service supermarket. But I wonder if focusing on Latin foods outside of the core Latino community in the city of Peekskill will serve this supermarket well. On the other hand, all the previous grocers here were pretty much mainstream stores, so maybe if that hasn't worked here, a Latin-centric but full-line grocer will.

Bakery, deli, and hot food in the front-left corner. The former entrance and exit foyer from the A&P days is now a cafe seating area beyond the registers.

And that wraps up our look at Peekskill Supermarket! It's nice to see this space remaining a supermarket, and the owners here seem to be interested in making it work even if that means adjusting the formula. But with that many independent supermarkets failing here in such a short time, I don't know what to expect for this one.

I haven't been able to get out to that many new supermarkets lately, so that's all the news I have for this weekend. See you Monday back in New Hampshire!