The Market Report

Garden Fresh Market Opened: October 23, 2024 Owner:  Wilson Bermeo Previous Tenants:  CVS Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  274 Old Nyack Tpk, Spring Valley, NY Photographed: October 25, 2024 How many supermarkets have we seen that have made their home in former drugstores? Ten or twenty years ago, it would've been the other way around -- lots of drugstores that had opened in former supermarkets. Now, the trend has flipped, as more drugstores close and independent supermarkets pop up around the area in former supermarkets. Spring Valley, New York is a city of around 35,000 (okay, it's actually a village within the town of Ramapo) right on the New York/New Jersey border in Rockland County, about seven miles west of the Mario Cuomo bridge, formerly the Tappan Zee. In an area of Rockland County with a large Orthodox Jewish population , parts of Spring Valley are home to large Latin, Caribbean, and African immigrant communities. Two miles north of the New Jersey ...

Bingo Wholesale Opened: 2020 Previous Tenants:  assorted non-grocery tenants Location:  44 Spring Valley Marketplace, Spring Valley, NY Photographed:  August 18, 2023 Welcome to Bingo Wholesale! The chain of stores is owned by a grocery operator from Israel and has been described as " the kosher Costco ." That's a pretty spot-on description! This Spring Valley store joins two other U.S. locations, in Brooklyn and Lakewood, NJ. Each community has a large Orthodox Jewish population, who make up nearly the entire customer base at this store. The roughly 50,000 square foot supermarket is one of the larger kosher stores in the immediate area, but it's far from the only one. There's probably a dozen within a ten-minute drive or so of this location. We'll be checking out one other -- I wish I had visited more, but that will have to be for future trips. I don't know how much of the information I retained, but I actually toured this store with a good friend of min...