The Market Report

Original Tenant:  A&P Address:  60 Center St - Hornell, NY Opened:  late 1950s/early 1960s Closed:  early 1980s Later Tenants:  Salvation Army Family Store Photographed:  August 2020 Having toured the large supermarket in North Hornell, we are now taking a look at a former store to the southeast of downtown. Now a Salvation Army thrift store, this building appears to be either a low-budget centennial style store , or perhaps a retrofit of an older store. By the way, Salvation Army was closed because I was here on a Sunday. As we see in so many 1950s/60s-era supermarkets, the relatively small (in this case 13,000 square feet) store was built with a gigantic parking lot on a huge property (in this case about 2.5 acres). And the A&P shaped sign is still there on the parking lot! Route 36, or Maple City Drive, is visible on the overpass in the background. My assumption is the raised freeway, which cuts through the downtown...

Wegmans Food Markets Opened:  unknown Previous Tenants:  none Location:  1000 NY-36 N, Hornell, NY Photographed:  August 2020 Despite my general feeling that Wegmans stores are not all that exciting, we've got another tour of their location here in Hornell. At just over 80,000 square feet, it's actually on the smaller side for a Wegmans yet one of the largest supermarkets in the Southern Tier. You enter to a produce department with cheese at the back of the aisle. Cafe, prepared foods, and deli (all of which is far smaller than Wegmans' newest stores) line the first aisle to the right, with meat and seafood along the back wall, bakery then pharmacy/HABA in the first few aisles to the left of produce, and beer, dairy, and frozen at the far end. As we'll see, the frozen department had some work going on at the time of my visit. Subs are on the front wall next to the cafe. On the other side of the cafe is pizza with deli behind it. While the...