[THE WRAP UP TOUR] Cambridge IGA - Cambridge, NY + Extra!

Cambridge IGA

Cooperative: IGA (supplied by Topco)

Location: 35 W Main St., Cambridge, NY

Photographed: September 8, 2025

This store has had several names over the years, based on which co-operative they were under at the time. This store previously had full IGA branding before joining the Western Family Foods co-op, giving it Shurfine branding. Eventually after Topco bought out Western, this store would keep the branding for a few more years before phasing it out, currently being branded simply as "Cambridge Village Market". It is unknown who the actual owner is, but it is run by Byron's Village Market, which also has a store in Schuylerville. A Byron Peregrim is listed as the company's president.

Cart Tax: At first glance, it looked like the Precision Wire carts were the store's entire fleet. However, some older carts remained in place. From top to bottom: Precision Wire 215Z (ex-Hannaford), Folding Carrier Corp. S/N 219020 (possibly a 1975 model; former Super Valu unit), Unarco (Byron's Market, reads Greenwich IGA on the side).

Store is definitely on the older side, with the dark-colored ceiling grid with light-colored tiles and the suspended tube lighting with diffusers. The first thing to your right upon entering is produce and condiments, a staple of stores of this size.

Front end, with 3 registers. Beverages are located in the alcove up ahead.

Aisle 5, with the Bakery visible up ahead. It is located along the back wall, parallel to the aisles. The Deli faces 90 degrees to the right, perpendicular to the aisles.

Aisle 6, which simultaneously houses both bread products and Frozen Foods.

It seems that Topco must have supplied the decor as well, since these aisle markers prominently bear their Food Club brand on them.

Now that we are finished with the main attraction, let's take a look at a store we visited before arriving to this one:

This Dollar General, south of the town limits, was undeniably a former late 1970s Grand Union building that was subdivided (with a vacant space to the right). The facade was painted blue sometime after 2009 and before 2012.

The flooring here is a very strange choice for a Dollar General. Apparently this wood-look floor replaced ceramic tile sometime after 2018. Even that did not look original to Grand Union either.

The wood floor continues inside the store.

I do not have any other way of concluding this post, other than the fact that this concludes our coverage of the Capital District. I can only say our last post goes the opposite way.

- Retail Regents