Retail Forever

After posting almost daily from January through April 2021 and twice per week from then on, I halted posting on both my blogs on August 2. The reason for this was that I wasn't proud of the quality of the majority of my content. There were only three posts that I was proud of ( this one , this one , and this one ). Most of the content was focused on commonplace retailers (CVS, Walgreens, Weis, and GIANT Food Stores are some good examples). Don't get me wrong: this stuff interests me. But I feel that it's better for a site like Flickr, as there isn't much research involved in these posts. The first hundred or so posts started with the exact same format: [Store #], located at [address] in [city, state] opened in... Not only are these posts boring for the reader, but also for me while writing. I cannot stress this enough. I HATE this content.  So, from now on, there will not be a posting schedule. I want to aim for one post per month, but I can't promise anything. I al...

A more detailed update is coming soon. In the meantime, there will not be any new posts.

ALDI #2676 Opened:  2018 Address:   223 Shoemaker Rd Photographed:  April 2022 For our first and only stop in Pottstown this time around (I think I covered almost everything last time), we have the Aldi located in the Pottstown Center Shopping Center. The space at 223 Shoemaker Rd Suite 123 started out in 1995 as a Weis Market, which replaced the store across the street which is now an Ollie's Bargain Outlet. The Weis closed on November 9, 2013. It sat vacant until 2017, when the building started preparations to become the second Aldi supermarket in Pottstown. It opened on July 12, 2018. The former Weis which Aldi replaced (Photo by joshaustin610 on Flickr)

GIANT #6563 Opened:  2019 Address:  100 Townsedge Dr Photographed:  April 2022 For our next stop, we make a quick return to Lancaster County for one of the final Giant stores in the county that I've not yet photographed, before moving on to Pottstown. For the complete history of what happened here, we must go back to 1916, when E. E. Ferguson and George W. Hassler opened a general store on State Street in downtown Quarryville. It was a while between the opening of that store and the opening of the store at TownsEdge Square, and since this post is only supposed to be about the TownsEdge store, I'll just include a quick timeline of the business's changes through the 1900s that eventually led to the opening of the aforementioned TownsEdge Square store.     1939: A second Ferguson & Hassler opened at the intersection of Routes 472 and 372. It was the first self-service store in Quarryville.     1944: The second store closed     1954: ...

REDNER'S #60 Opened:  2009 Address: 110 Northside Commons Photographed:  March 2022 Now that we've finished Woodbridge, let's head back to Pennsylvania to check out one of the three chain supermarkets in Palmyra.  Redner's opened its first Palmyra store in the mid-1980s, replacing a Giant Food Store at 220 Campbelltown Rd. It relocated to its current location at 110 Northside Commons in 2009.