Retail Forever

GIANT #387 Opened:  1999 Address:   19312 Lighthouse Plaza Photographed:  July 2021 Giant Food of Maryland, LLC opened its 55,797 sq. ft. Super G store in Rehoboth Beach on March 20, 1999. When the Super G name was phased out in 2005, this store (along with all others in Delaware) received new signage, the current Giant logo of the time. However, when the logo changed in 2008, it was remodeled yet again, giving it the look that can be found today. The store's original appearance as Super G (Photo from the Cape Gazette) Appearance before the new signage was installed around 2008 (Google Maps imagery)

RITE AID #3611 Opened:  1988 Address:   455 N. Enola Rd Photographed:  August 2021 Our second and final stop in Enola (well, all of Cumberland County for that matter) is Rite Aid #3611. Next, we're headed to Dauphin for yet another Rite Aid. Let's go!  A former Drug Fair, this store has similar roots (and a similar store number) to #3610 in Columbia, which we featured back in January 2021. Drug Fair opened in the 1970s, and by 1988, like most of the chain's other stores, had been converted to Rite Aid. As is the case with almost all Rite Aid stores at this point, this store received the Rx Evolution (also known as gray) prototype exterior in 2020. (Photo from wrdc.net) (Photo by joshaustin610 on Flickr)

GIANT #6567 Opened:  2019 Address:   35 Friendly Dr Photographed:  July 2021 Similar to Giant's Columbia location, this store started out as a Musser's Market in February 2003. However, this wasn't the first location for Musser's Buck store. The Friendly Drive store originally opened in 1973. That store is where a strip mall now stands , connected to the newer store. Like the other Musser's stores in Columbia and Lebanon, it was sold to Giant, reopening on November 8, 2019, the same day as the Columbia store (Lebanon reopened a week prior). Photo by Theodore Nichols on Google Maps

TOM'S #9 Opened:  1997 Address:   459 N. Enola Rd Photographed:  August 2021 Remember that Tom's convenience store in Shrewsbury , which was featured on this blog back in July? Well, here I am at another Tom's, this time in Enola. If you're interested in the history of Tom's, I went into detail about it in the Shrewsbury post , so if you want some background on Tom's, I'd recommend you go check that out! Tom's #9, another store of the Pointed Roof design, opened in 1997, a year after Shrewsbury. Around 2012, many Tom's stores were converted to Sunoco, but this one was only converted halfway. The convenience store was rebranded to Sunoco A-Plus, however, the gas pumps continued to operate as Tom's. But then everything changed. Again. The Enola store was one of over 1,000 to be purchased by 7-Eleven in 2018 and by 2021, it has been completely converted to 7-Eleven. Tom's #9 - October 2008 - Likely the original appearance (Google Maps Streetview

THE FRESH MARKET #229 Opened:  2016 Address:   30098 Veterans Way Photographed:  July 2021 The Fresh Market #229 in Rehoboth Beach, the chain's first (and only) store in Delaware, opened on June 8, 2016, as part of the Rehoboth Gateway shopping center.

CVS #1654 Opened:  2014 Address:   1700 N. George St Photographed:  August 2021 Welcome back to Retail Forever! As this is the fourth CVS in a row to be featured on this blog, you're probably bored with the chain (I know I sure am). You'll probably be relieved that up next, we have a Rite Aid and not another CVS. Like many other Central-Pennsylvanian CVS stores, this one started out as a Rea & Derick. It opened on March 1, 1959, with a shopping center at 1500 N. George St. In 1991, it became a CVS. Despite many relocation waves, this CVS held remained open and went on to become the last former Peoples Drug/Rea & Derick in the area before CVS finally decided to relocate in 2014. Original store #1654 (Photo by joshaustin610 on Flickr)

WEIS #274 Opened:  2016 Address: 19287 Miller Rd Photographed:  July 2021 Weis #274 started its life in the late1980s as a Food Lion. It was later expanded and remodeled in 1997 . In 2016, Food Lion's owner, Delhaize Group, merged with Ahold (which already owned the Giant Food chain), causing many overlaps in terms of store locations. This resulted in 38 Food Lion stores being sold to Weis Markets , including four Delawarean stores. These stores went on to become Weis's first stores in the state. UPDATE 04/16/22: This store was announced to be closing permanently in mid-May. Photo by joshaustin610 on Flickr

CVS #1657 Opened:  Mid-2000s Address:   2080 S. Queen St Photographed:  August 2021 Our drugstore series has finally arrived in York! Today, we've got a semi-interesting CVS located in the city's south end. Here we go! This store started out on November 23, 1984, at 2057 Springwood Road as a Peoples Drug store. In 1991, it was converted to a CVS with the rest of the chain. In the mid-2000s, it relocated to its current location at 2080 S. Queen St, becoming a 24-hour store. In 2020, the store was remodeled inside and out, refreshing the exterior and adding a HealthHub.  They are advertising for HealthHub in literally every place they can! HealthHub logo on the floor near the entrance, sorry about the blurry photo Listing of HealthHub services on one of the back walls, in retrospect it probably would have been helpful to take a photo of the whole sign... Old store, 2057 Springwood Rd (Photo by joshaustin610 on Flickr)

WEIS #67 Opened:  1994 Address:   1170 Mae St Photographed:  July 2021 Happy New Year! 🥳 Weis's Hummelstown store (#67) originally opened in 1968 at the Park Village Shopping Center. In January 1994, with co-anchor Kmart , it relocated to the current location at 1170 Mae Street. After the original store's closure, it was converted to a  Scot's Lo-Cost and a franchised Save-A-Lot. However, these stores were later found to be "sham supermarkets", only open to prevent Giant from opening in the former Kmart space.  The original store at Park Village in 1981 (Photo: Vintage Aerial) The old store after being converted to a Save-A-Lot, before being demolished for Sheetz (Photo: The Weis Project)