Bob Bloomer, the new owner of JJ’s Delicatessen in Port Jervis, said besides raising prices a little and accepting credit cards, he’s not planning to change much in the business.
“I’m adding a few things—more ”American foods“, some more daily specials—but we’re keeping the same lines of products they’ve always had,” Bloomer said. “That’s what’s made them successful here.”
He couldn’t give a percentage as to how much prices would rise, but he did some price shopping and saw that his Polish ham for example, which he said was much better than most in the area, was below market value.
The shop, located at 174 Pike Street, sells prepared foods and mostly European groceries. It has a range of cookies, candies, meats, cheeses, spreads and sauces, “mostly German, Polish, Russian—like I have four different kinds of sauerkraut,” Bloomer said.
