Retail Forever

GIANT #6563 Opened:  2019 Address:  100 Townsedge Dr Photographed:  April 2022 For our next stop, we make a quick return to Lancaster County for one of the final Giant stores in the county that I've not yet photographed, before moving on to Pottstown. For the complete history of what happened here, we must go back to 1916, when E. E. Ferguson and George W. Hassler opened a general store on State Street in downtown Quarryville. It was a while between the opening of that store and the opening of the store at TownsEdge Square, and since this post is only supposed to be about the TownsEdge store, I'll just include a quick timeline of the business's changes through the 1900s that eventually led to the opening of the aforementioned TownsEdge Square store.     1939: A second Ferguson & Hassler opened at the intersection of Routes 472 and 372. It was the first self-service store in Quarryville.     1944: The second store closed     1954: The second store reopened at  17 E St

REDNER'S #60 Opened:  2009 Address: 110 Northside Commons Photographed:  March 2022 Now that we've finished Woodbridge, let's head back to Pennsylvania to check out one of the three chain supermarkets in Palmyra.  Redner's opened its first Palmyra store in the mid-1980s, replacing a Giant Food Store at 220 Campbelltown Rd. It relocated to its current location at 110 Northside Commons in 2009.

For today's post, we have quite a few things to take a look at, including a unique former Tom's Convenience Store. To start, let's take a look at the history of Hess in Lancaster County, plus how CR's Friendly Markets fueled Hess' Central Pennsylvanian expansion. Part 1: Hess in Lancaster County Lancaster saw its first Hess service stations, at 5 Hartman Bridge Road and 1704 Columbia Avenue, in the 1960s. Grand Opening ad for the Columbia Ave location - Lancaster New Era - May 5, 1967 Just over two decades earlier, in 1942, Carlos R. Leffler, Inc was founded in Richland, PA as a fuel and propane distribution business. In 1981, the company opened its first convenience store, known as CR's Friendly Market, around Reading, PA. By the late 1990s, Hess operated three locations in Lancaster County, the aforementioned Hartman Bridge Road and Columbia Avenue locations as well as a station on Furnace Hills Road in Lititz (more on that later on).  By 1999, Leffler had gro

LIDL #1423 Opened:  2021 Address:   789 Saint George Ave Photographed:  January 2022 As our second and final installation from Woodbridge, we have one of the stores that replaced the store featured in last week's installation (the former A&P), Lidl #1423. Opening on March 3, 2021, in a portion of the former Woodbridge A&P, Lidl #1423 was the chain's 16th store to open in New Jersey. 

CVS #1650 Opened:  1999 Address:  130 Hockersville Rd Photographed:  May 2022 CVS #1922 Opened:  193 Address:  6301 Grayson Rd Photographed:  May 2022 For today's double-feature, we have two CVS stores in Dauphin County. First up - CVS #1650 in Hershey. CVS #1650, like most Central Pennsylvanian CVSes started out as a Peoples Drug Store, this one located at 25 Derrytown Mall. It opened on November 29, 1968 and became CVS in 1991. It was relocated to its current location, 130 Hockersville Road, in 1999. The history of store #1922 in Harrisburg is much more condensed. It opened in the late 1980s/early 1990s as a Fay's and became CVS in 1993.

SUPER A&P - WOODBRIDGE, NJ Opened:  2000 Closed: 2010 Address:   789 St. George Ave Photographed:  January 2022 Welcome to New Jersey! This is the blog's first venture into NJ, so while we only have two stores planned this time, there's certainly more to see in the future :). So let's get started with our first store -- this former Super A&P along St. George Avenue. A&P's Woodbridge store was built and opened in 2000 as the joint relocation of the stores at 1555 St George Ave in Avenel and 3 Lafayette Rd in Fords. Just over ten years after it's opening, Woodbridge's A&P was on the chopping block, closing in October 2010. In 2014 and 2021 respectively, Crunch Fitness and Lidl opened in the abandoned supermarket. Courtesy Patch

CVS #2591 Opened:  2005 Address:  104 N. Pottstown Pike Photographed:  April 2022 CVS #10694 Opened:  2018 Address:  141 W. Lincoln Hwy Photographed:  April 2022 For today's double-feature we have two CVS stores along Pennsylvania Route 100. First up, store #2591 in Chester Springs. Chester Springs' CVS #2591 opened on June 27, 2005. There really isn't much else to say about it except that it has a neat exterior design. For the second store of the day, we have one of the many CVS locations in Exton, store #10694. This is one of the newest CVSes around, it opened on March 4, 2018.