Retail Forever

RITE AID #11148 Opened:  2007 Address:   120 S. Mill Rd Photographed:  September 2021 RITE AID #3602 Opened:  1998 Address:   5675 York Rd Photographed:  September 2021 Welcome to Kennett Square! This is our only post on Retail Forever this time around, but we've also got the former Sears Hardware over on Kmart Forever, which you can take a look at too! If you've been following the Weekly Digest series, you've probably already seen the photos for the next few posts, but if you haven't, you'll just have to wait until next week to see! Rite Aid #11148 started out in 2001 as Eckerd #6279 (which was originally located at 345 Scarlett Rd and relocated here in 2001). In 2007, upon Rite Aid acquiring the Eckerds, this store was converted to Rite Aid, becoming store #11148.  Before the 2020/21 logo update (Photo by joshaustin610 on Flickr) BONUS RITE AID #3602 - NEW OXFORD, PA My photo of this store is pretty much trash, although since I wrote out a ...

This technically should be a weekly grocery store post but it seemed too interesting to wait. When I was looking through my 2018 photos a few days ago, I came across this interesting one. It's a photo of the abandoned Shur Fine supermarket in New Oxford, Pennsylvania. Not much is known about this supermarket, so this is going to be a shorter post. It appears that this store opened in the early 1980s, and around 2013, a Sunoco gas station was added to the site. This supermarket appears to have closed in 2017 (based on Google Maps and Historic Aerials), and it became a Dollar Tree, likely in 2019. Based on Shur Fine's store locator, it appears that the chain still operates stores in the West (namely in Washington (State) and Oregon) but their Central-Pennsylvania operations have folded. On a side note, I found some Shur Fine branded plastic forks at the Harrisburg Boscov's back in November 2020. You can see photos of them here The store's road sign from before Sunoco was ...