Retail Forever

GIANT #349 Opened:  2007 Address:   3530 Sugarloaf Pkwy Photographed:  September 2021 Welcome to our second and final grocery store post from the Frederick area. Up next, we're headed back up to Lancaster for Weis #138. Giant #349, a 56,657 sq. ft. supermarket at the Villages at Urbana shopping center in Frederick (to be more specific, Urbana) opened on March 2, 2007, under the chain's Super Giant banner. When the Super Giant concept was phased out in 2010, this store was rebranded as a regular Giant.

GIANT EAGLE #1842 Opened:  2002 Address:  1305 W. 7th St Photographed:  September 2021 Welcome to the first of two Frederick-Area supermarket posts, and probably the more interesting one. One of just two Giant Eagle stores in Maryland (the other is also in Frederick), this store has quite an interesting history, with the building originally housing a Country Market. I'm unsure of when Country Market opened, although I do know that Giant Eagle opened on February 9, 2002, the same day as the chain's other Marylandian stores (all of which were formerly Country Market). On June 28, 2007, a Texaco adjacent to the rest of the shopping center was converted to one of Giant Eagle's own GetGo convenience stores. GetGo #3843 (Google Maps Streetview)