Grocery Archaeology

Original Grocery Tenant: Mr. Z's IGA Address: 221 Skyline Dr, East Stroudsburg, PA Opened:  unknown Closed:  1996 Later Tenants:  subdivided Photographed:  May 30, 2021 This store is a bit hard to see given the cars and the general lack of visibility in this mall, but the building roughly in the center-right of the picture above is a 26,000 square foot former Mr. Z's IGA. We've seen a few in this area, and the chain was purchased by Weis Markets in 1992. Here's an older picture (much closer up) with some more history. Four years later, this store closed as Mr. Z's moved across the street to the location where the Weis is currently. We'll be taking a look at that store on Monday on The Market Report !

Original Grocery Tenant: Mr. Z's IGA Address: 2610 Milford Rd, East Stroudsburg, PA Opened:  ca. 1980s Closed:  2008 Later Tenants:  Weis Markets (2008-2018) Photographed:  January 15, 2021 Today's post is a quick look inside a former Weis, originally a Mr. Z's (see here for some background). The 30,000 square foot store made it to 2018 but some combination of its poor location and the opening of a Price Chopper close by probably led to this store's demise. I was here not too long after it closed, and it seemed there was still quite a bit inside the store although key fixtures had been removed and likely repurposed elsewhere. We can't get too good a look inside, but this is what we'd see if we entered the foyer. It looks like we're looking at the customer service counter. And this area was likely where the registers were, given the marks on the flooring. Although a few Weis locations have closed in and around Stroudsburg, there's still one each in St...