The Market Report

Red Berry Farm Owner: unknown Opened:  2014 Cooperative:  none Location:  357 NY-211, Middletown, NY Photographed:  February 3, 2021 It's time for our final Middletown store! There are plenty of grocers in Middletown we haven't covered -- see here for an inexhaustive list -- but those will have to wait until I can get back up to the area again. The Red Berry Farm opened in 2014 in a roughly 8,000 square foot space. And you guessed it from the facade -- the space is half of a former A&P centennial store built in the 1960s, or shortly after the ShopRite next door . There was actually another centennial in Middletown, this one right in downtown at 125 North Street . It's no longer a grocery store, but right next door is an indie called Garcia's Market. Red Berry Farm is mostly a produce market -- and a very extensive one at that -- but there are also a few groceries and a deli and seafood counter in the back. It's a very attractive little store with a lot of nic...

ALDI Opened: before 2008 Previous Tenants:  unknown Location:  341 NY-211, Middletown, NY Photographed:  February 3, 2021 Just across the street from yesterday's ShopRite -- and in the same strip mall as the original Middletown ShopRite -- is this roughly 14,000 square foot ALDI. Inside, the store has updated decor but older flooring . I don't know when the store opened, but it was definitely before 2008. That's all for this store, and tomorrow, we're headed next door to a smaller independent on The Independent Edition !

ShopRite of Wallkill Owner: SRS Opened:  2007 Previous Tenants:  Stop & Shop (2001-2007) Cooperative:  Wakefern Food Corp. Location:  20 Lloyds Ln, Middletown, NY Photographed:  February 3, 2021 And here is the final stop on our history of this Wallkill ShopRite! Worth noting, too, that Middletown has a second ShopRite across town. To recap, Big V opened up shop near here in the 1950s, then moved in the 1970s to a larger location , which was then taken over by SRS (ShopRite Supermarkets, Inc., the corporate Wakefern-owned division) in 2001. SRS then built a new massive 85,000 square foot store around 2005, but never opened there as in 2007 they instead moved into a closed Stop & Shop just across the street from the original 1950s store. And aside from a coat of paint, the exterior of this 60,000 square foot store looks almost exactly like it did when it was a Stop & Shop, right down to the department names across the front of the store. The faca...

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!