Retail Forever

GIANT #6567 Opened:  2019 Address:   35 Friendly Dr Photographed:  July 2021 Similar to Giant's Columbia location, this store started out as a Musser's Market in February 2003. However, this wasn't the first location for Musser's Buck store. The Friendly Drive store originally opened in 1973. That store is where a strip mall now stands , connected to the newer store. Like the other Musser's stores in Columbia and Lebanon, it was sold to Giant, reopening on November 8, 2019, the same day as the Columbia store (Lebanon reopened a week prior). Photo by Theodore Nichols on Google Maps

TOM'S #9 Opened:  1997 Address:   459 N. Enola Rd Photographed:  August 2021 Remember that Tom's convenience store in Shrewsbury , which was featured on this blog back in July? Well, here I am at another Tom's, this time in Enola. If you're interested in the history of Tom's, I went into detail about it in the Shrewsbury post , so if you want some background on Tom's, I'd recommend you go check that out! Tom's #9, another store of the Pointed Roof design, opened in 1997, a year after Shrewsbury. Around 2012, many Tom's stores were converted to Sunoco, but this one was only converted halfway. The convenience store was rebranded to Sunoco A-Plus, however, the gas pumps continued to operate as Tom's. But then everything changed. Again. The Enola store was one of over 1,000 to be purchased by 7-Eleven in 2018 and by 2021, it has been completely converted to 7-Eleven. Tom's #9 - October 2008 - Likely the original appearance (Google Maps Streetview...

THE FRESH MARKET #229 Opened:  2016 Address:   30098 Veterans Way Photographed:  July 2021 The Fresh Market #229 in Rehoboth Beach, the chain's first (and only) store in Delaware, opened on June 8, 2016, as part of the Rehoboth Gateway shopping center.

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)