Retail Forever

ALDI #421 Opened:  1992 Address: 280 N. Northern Way Photographed: December 2021 As mentioned last week, we'll be taking a quick pit stop in York this week for Aldi #421, which is one of two York Aldi stores to be featured on the blog. The first store in the area for Aldi, the store at 280 N. Northern Way opened on August 13, 1992. It was later remodeled in 2017, bringing the store to what it is today. Pre-remodel (Google Maps Streetview)

WALGREENS #9591 Opened:  2005 Address:   2350 E. Market St Photographed:  December 2021 After our brief detour into Hamburg last week, we're back down in York County to finish out with Walgreens #9591 before going on to Harrisburg.  One of three stores in York county for Walgreens, store #9591 opened in November 2005. It's located along the busy retail corridor of Market Street, so I imagine it does really well.

1. Tom's Newberrytown - 2180 Old Trail Rd, Goldsboro, PA As far as I can see, this location was never actually branded as a Tom's. But it had the color scheme and appeared on the Tom's website, so........ Tom's c-store with Exxon gasoline, later converted to Exxon completely. Before the Tom's pattern design thingy was removed from the convenience store. (Google Maps Streetview) 2. Tom's E Market St - 2335 E Market St, York, PA Closed around 2006? Demolished in 2008/2009 for Giant Gasoline. Former Tom's, shortly before demolition (Google Maps Streetview)

ALDI #1907 Opened:  2014 Address:   905 Loucks Rd Photographed:  August 2021 Continuing through York, our next stop is Aldi #1907 on Loucks Rd. Let's get started! Aldi #1907, one of the chain's two stores in York and one of three across York County, opened on June 26, 2014, making it the third to open in the county.

SAVE-A-LOT #60064 Opened:  2007 Address:   1045 Mount Rose Ave Photographed:  August 2021 Continuing through York, our next stop is Save-A-Lot #60064. After this, we're headed up to North York for one more supermarket. Before the opening of Save-A-Lot's original York store, Downtown York had been without a supermarket since Kash & Karry closed in 1986. York's first Save-A-Lot opened in January 1995 at 131-139 N Duke St, in a space left behind by A&P in 1982. On November 15, 2007, the store relocated to 1045 Mt Rose Ave, in a former Giant Food Store, which opened in the 1960s/1970s and closed in 1994. However, this was out of city limits and Downtown York was without a supermarket again... until 2011 when C-Town opened in the former Kash & Karry/Save-A-Lot on North Duke St. Original Save-A-Lot of York, now C-Town (Photo by joshaustin610 on Flickr)

PRICE RITE OF YORK Opened:  2003 Address:   2142 S. Queen St Photographed:  August 2021 Our supermarket series has finally made it to York (well, actually, it did back in July...). But this time we've got three (this one included) new stores to take a look at over the next two weeks. Price Rite of York, a 29,000 sq. ft. no-frills supermarket, located (surprise, surprise) in York, opened on July 1, 2003, in a space formerly occupied by Phar-Mor, which closed in 2002 with the rest of the chain. In 2018 or 2019, this store was remodeled to the PriceRite Marketplace format. Original appearance of Price Rite of York (Photo by joshaustin610 on Flickr) Overview of the whole shopping center, bec...

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)

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)

Grocery Outlet Bargain Market #724, located at 1500 N. George Street in York, Pennsylvania opened on August 4, 2016, as one of the only Grocery Outlet stores in Pennsylvania that was not formerly an Amelia's Grocery Outlet. This location was formerly Weis #27, which opened in 1960, and closed in March 2016, five months before it reopened as a Grocery Outlet.  The store as a Weis (Google Maps streetview) The following photos are by Coolcat4333 on Flickr. Quick Information: Opened: 1960 / 2016 Address: 1500 N. George Street Photographed: June 2018

CVS #4215, located at 820 Edgewood Road in York, Pennsylvania opened around 1998 as the relocation of a store at 1061 Haines Road, which opened in 1997 (it was open as a CVS for less than a year). This location was originally supposed to be a Revco.  The store as it appears today. Quick Information: Opened:  Around 1998 Address:  820 Edgewood Road Photographed:  June 2018