If you could have any new grocery store/supermarket in the Lower Hudson Valley, which would it be?
That’s this week’s Journal News/lohud.com grocery store poll question.
Is it a new location of a store that currently has one or multiple other locations in our region? Maybe it’s a grocery store chain that’s in another part of the country. Perhaps a stand-alone market you’ve been to away from our region. Or maybe a store or chain that’s in another country.
Westchester, Rockland and Putnam are replete with choices.
There’s DeCicco & Sons, which has Westchester locations and one coming to neighboring Greenwich, Connecticut. There’s Stew Leonard’s, with its animatronic characters, which has a Yonkers location and ones in Connecticut, Long Island and New Jersey. There’s the Wegmans that opened in Westchester’s West Harrison. There are Trader Joe’s locations, including one coming next to Yonkers. There are Whole Foods in Chappaqua, Port Chester and White Plains. There are larger chains such as ShopRite, as well as locations of European-based grocery stores such as Lidl and Aldi. And stand-alone stores such as the Market at Pound Ridge Square.
What follows is a list of stores, several already in the Lower Hudson Valley and others with no local presence, to choose from. You can also choose “other” and write in a store not in the list.
Remember, it can be a new location of a store that already has a presence here or a store from elsewhere in the state, country or world, be it a chain or a stand-alone.
Along with stores that have locations in our region, we’ve put in the list some chains found elsewhere in the country, such as Kroger (largely in the Midwest and South), Meijer (in the Midwest), Publix (in Florida and southeastern states), Shaw’s (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, northern New England), H-E-B (in Texas) and Gelson’s (upscale, regional chain in southern California).
This reporter threw in a few he’s been to overseas: Eroski, Gadis, and Mercadona, all in Spain, and Carrefour, a French-based chain with presence in much of Europe. None of those have U.S. stores.
The poll closes Friday, April 24 at midnight.
For a map of grocery stores in our region, go here.
Vote in the poll below!
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Which grocery stores should come to the Lower Hudson Valley? Vote now
Reporting by Michael P. McKinney, Rockland/Westchester Journal News / Rockland/Westchester Journal News
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