Friday, October 13, 2023

A Look Inside: Deli Master of Broadalbin, New York

Owner: John Schiavo
Opened: April 2020
Previous Tenants: Myzal's > Sawyer's Corner Store
Cooperative: none
Location: 49 N. Main Street, Broadalbin, NY
Photographed: June 22, 2020 (cart tax), October 4, 2023 (store)

Today's post takes us to a former small-town supermarket now functioning as a public food wholesaler.

Deli Master, which also operates a store in the Johnstown Industrial Park opened this store in April 2020 out of the former Sawyer's Corner Store following its April 2019 closure and sale.


While most of it is not shown in these picture, cheeses and other dairy products are on the left, grocery in the middle, deli in the back, and frozen foods on the right side of the store.

Cart Tax: As Deli Master is a food wholesaler who sells in bulk to places such as restaurants and bodegas, it makes perfect sense for them to use warehouse-sized carts such as the ex-Sam's Club Unarco M170Zs shown above, which are currently stored outside. The smaller carts, which have always been stored inside, are ex-Walmart units (the one shown is from September 1994), which are old enough to bear the WALMART DISCOUNT CITY moniker on the handles (another cart lost its aftermarket Village Market handle insert and bears said moniker prominently).

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