Hannaford to replace Hurley Ridge Market
Announcement signals end of 19-year run as independent grocery store
WEST HURLEY, N.Y. >> Hurley Ridge Market on state Route 375 will be closing on July 20 and replaced by a Hannaford supermarket about a month later.
The announcement Monday signals the end of a 19-year run as an independent grocery store, which is the successor to a smaller store in the same location owned by Barbara Epstein and her late husband Bill Epstein.
“It was a little pharmacy and there was a deli attached to it and they knocked that down to build a store half the size this one is,” store manager Teri Bach-Tucker said. “Then seven years after opening that one, they did the addition to the current size it is now.”
The property is being purchased by Warwickbased Southern Realty and Development, which reached a lease agreement with Hannaford. The developer in a press release stated that Rondout Savings Bank, Main Street Wine and Liquor, and Governor Clinton Cleaner and Taylors will remain open under current leases and will not be impacted by renovations to the market.
Tucker said there are 74 employees who have
been told that they will be given an opportunity for an interview with Hannaford.
“I won’t know more until May 2,” she said.
Tucker, who has been with Hurley Ridge Market for its entire 19 years, said there has been a sense of loyalty among employees and with customers.
“We’re a community store that has many, many local vendors,” she said.
“We have a variety of customers,” Bach said. “We have a lot weekend clientele, people with second homes — and it’s an upscale market.”
Barbara Epstein, in a press release, said, “For everything there is a season and now is the time to move on. The Epstein family, with gratitude and appreciation, thanks the Hurley Ridge Market staff and the communities they have served.”
Hannaford spokesman Eric Blom said the new store will offer customers “great fresh food, a wide assortment of products and everyday low prices.”
Hannaford Supermarkets is based in Scarborough, Maine, and reports having more than 27,000 employees at 181 stores in Maine, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.