Retail Forever

The andThat! store in Rehoboth Beach, DE. Located in part of a (former) Kmart, this store has quite the history, which I'm going to share with you. As a quick backstory on the building (you can find a whole report with photos over on Kmart Forever), Kmart built a store in Rehoboth Beach in 1995. In the late 1990s, it was converted to a "Big Kmart", and it remained that way until 2017, when Kmart downsized. In Late 2017 / Early 2018, andThat! and PetSmart opened. (2018) (2020) Quick Information: Opened: Around 2018 Address: 19563 Coastal Highway Photographed: August 2018 / August 2020

This building has quite a history, housing two other tenants before HomeGoods. I think the building was originally built in the 1980s (I'm not 100% sure, Historic Aerials doesn't have any imagery between 1981 and 1992) originally as a Lowe's. Lowe's relocated to 20364 Plantation Road in the 1990s. Furniture & More opened in the space in 2005, and on October 1, 2010, that relocated to 19287 Coastal Highway. Finally, on May 22, 2011, HomeGoods opened in the space. The building while it was still occupied by Furniture & More Google Maps imagery The store as it appears today Quick Information: Opened: 2011 Address: 34170 Citizens Drive Photographed: August 2018

ACME #3788, 700 W. Lancaster Avenue, located in Devon, Pennsylvania opened in 1979. The store was then expanded in 2003 when the store took over some space formerly occupied by Eckerd. The store was remodeled in the early 2010s. Before the remodel Photo: Acme Style Quick Information: Opened:  1979 Address:  700 W. Lancaster Avenue Photographed:  April 2018

CVS #2297, located at 385 North Broad Street in Lititz, Pennsylvania opened on May 1, 2011, as CVS' second Lititz location (the other store is located at 1052 Lititz Pike, we have a photo of that store as well and a post will be coming soon). This store features the standard CVS design of the time. Quick Information: Opened: 2011 Address: 385 N. Broad Street Photographed: November 2020

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 ...