The Market Report

9W Farm Owner: Seong Pyo Hong Opened:  2006 Cooperative:  none Location:  212 US-9W, Haverstraw, NY Photographed: June 2, 2021 In 2005, a Met Foodmarket opened at the other end of this strip mall in part of a former A&P. That store later became an NSA and then an Ideal Food Basket . But the following year, the 9W Farm opened up shop. It's a small, roughly 5,000 square foot store, mostly selling produce but with some grocery items and flowers, too, along with a seafood department. We don't have an extensive look inside (and we saw the outside quickly before), but it's a nice little place with a lot of produce! Tomorrow, we're headed across the street to check out another small supermarket.

Ideal Food Basket Owner: Andres Ferreira Opened:  2012 Previous Tenants:  A&P (closed 1980s) > Met Foodmarkets (opened 2005) > NSA Supermarkets Cooperative:  America's Food Basket Location:  210 US-9W, Haverstraw, NY Photographed:  June 2, 2021 It's time for a revisit to the Ideal Food Basket in Haverstraw, NY! We saw this store quickly years ago, with a snapshot as I drove by. The building is around 15,000 square feet and opened as an A&P back in the 1950s or 60s. It closed by the 1980s, when Inserra opened a large ShopRite just half a mile north of here (now a Stop & Shop ). Although I'm not sure what happened after that, the space became a Met Foodmarket in 2005, then an NSA Supermarket, then an Ideal Food Basket in 2014 or 2015, although the NSA signage remained for a few more years. A&P returned to the area from 1997 to 2005. The store was just completing an exterior remodel when I visited, as you can see the little bit of exposed s...

Let's jump just next door from  9W Farm to Ideal Food Basket, which is more of a complete supermarket. It's part of America's Food Basket, an approximately 50-store cooperative with stores primarily in New York City and the Boston metropolitan area. For whatever reason, I felt the need to again summarize the history of America's Food Basket. Even though I had done it before . More than once . I suppose the only thing I can add now is that the original NSA group was specifically a group of Dominican store owners (as, by the way, both Fine Fare and Bravo were). It's a very interesting building here with the arch roof and the random castle-like facade, all combined with the elongated-A&P-type capsule shape sign. I don't know anything about the history of this building other than the fact that the Ideal was previously an NSA and before that, a Met Foodmarkets (as most Ideal stores were). I know this from a mixture of conjecture and the observations...

Heading about 27 miles south of Beacon  for today's and tomorrow's Snapshots. By the way, please excuse any typos this post may contain. As I'm writing this, I'm sitting facing a large window and as the sun is setting, it's becoming impossible to read what's on my computer. I don't quite have the motivation to get up and move somewhere less sunny. So if my writing descends into complete nonsense, hey, now you know what it's like to be on the receiving end of one of my supermarket lectures when you are not a Market Report reader! Today's store is a produce and fish market that looks pretty big from these pictures and Google Maps, although I haven't been inside. They have their work cut out for them, though, because they share a strip mall with an Ideal Food Basket supermarket (which we'll see tomorrow). These stores tend to work directly with importers and suppliers rather than using an intermediary wholesaler, meaning that they a...