The Market Report

Tops Friendly Markets Opened: June 8, 2025 Owner:  Northeast Grocery Previous Tenants:  ShopRite (1993-2024) Cooperative:  none Location:  100 Tops Markets Blvd, Ellenville, NY Photographed:  July 2, 2025 Welcome to Ellenville, NY! This small town is about 70 miles northwest of New York City, about 30 miles northeast of Port Jervis . The only major supermarket in town was a ShopRite, built in 1993 by Big V Supermarkets. When Big V went under around 2000, ownership of the ShopRite transferred to SRS, the corporate division of Wakefern. SRS announced in 2023 that they'd be closing this store in the summer of 2024 , shortly after they pulled out of the Capital Region to the north. By late 2023, Northeast Grocery had acquired the five Capital Region stores, reopening four of them as Market 32 in early 2024 after some very light remodeling. Northeast Grocery also took over this Ellenville location, but under its Tops division. It underwent a bit more work than the...

Original Grocery Tenant: Big V ShopRite Address: 400 NY-211, Middletown, NY Opened:  1990s Closed:  2007 Later Tenants:  Big Lots Photographed:  February 3, 2021 This 50,000 square foot supermarket was built in the 1990s as a Big V-owned ShopRite, relocating from a beautiful store of half that size down the street. In 2001, ownership was transferred to SRS when Big V went bankrupt. This store was relatively short-lived, having closed in 2007 when ShopRite moved into a former Stop & Shop, directly across the street from their old location. On Flickr, Jack Thomas captured this store several times in its history, including with its original facade and after a renovation . Also of note is that a location was built to replace this store , but when Stop & Shop closed very close to this store, ShopRite moved there instead. The almost-ShopRite -- of 85,000 square feet -- is now partially a Planet Fitness . (He also has a huge library of retail pictures in this a...

Original Grocery Tenant: Big V ShopRite Address: 303 NY-211, Middletown, NY Opened:  1950s Closed:  1990s Later Tenants:  non-grocery tenants Photographed:  February 3, 2021 Welcome to Middletown, New York's first ShopRite! The store opened in the 1950s with a beautiful sweeping arched roof and an all-glass front wall, which amazingly is pretty intact these days . The 24,000 square foot store, as far as I can tell, was built as a ShopRite owned by Big V and then closed in the 1990s when Big V moved down the street to a much larger, new-build location. That's what we'll be seeing tomorrow!

ShopRite of Liberty Owner: SRS Opened:  2001 under current ownership, between 1976 and 1983 previously Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  46 Thompson Sq, Monticello, NY Photographed:  February 3, 2021 With SRS-owned ShopRites closing in the Capital Region and Ellenville , I've been keeping an eye on the performance of other stores. This 54,000 square foot ShopRite in Monticello opened owned by Big V between 1976 and 1983, then during Big V's bankruptcy in 2000-2001 was transferred to SRS. This store has seen a distinct lack of updating over the years, and even its most recent renovation (probably around 2010) only the grand aisle was updated -- and that, only a little bit. I'm keeping an eye on this, for that reason. It's possible the store could be headed for closure, but it didn't seem that way to me. It's possible SRS is looking to replace the store with a new-build one nearby, or there's some other reason it hasn't...