The Market Report

Welcome to the Lancaster, PA area! Coloquially referred to as Pennsylvania Dutch Country , the area's Amish population has made it well-known as a tourism and agricultural area. We're going to be taking a look at some of the supermarkets in this area, which are a fascinating variety. We're going to start in Downingtown to the southeast, which is roughly equidistant (30 miles or so) from the city centers of Philadelphia and Lancaster, a small to midsized city of about 60,000. Then we're headed northwest to Morgantown, through New Holland roughly halfway between Morgantown and Lancaster, and then into the city of Lancaster itself. From there, we'll be making a northward trek through Lititz, Akron, Ephrata, and then finally Denver. Denver brings us within about 10 miles of Reading, PA, which will be our next group. It's going to be a really interesting group here, with a sampling of Philadelphia suburb-style supermarkets in Downingtown, country supermarkets with a

It's time to celebrate because it's The Market Report's sixth anniversary! It's been so much fun writing about grocery stores for the last six years, photographing them since May 2016 and writing about them since November 2016. I'm now over 3000 stores photographed, in 18 states (ME, VT, NH, NY, RI, MA, CT, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, WV, NC, SC, FL, CO, CA, plus Washington DC and Nova Scotia and Quebec in Canada). Not bad! And we keep moving along here on the blog, hopefully getting to all 3000+ stores someday. Thank you all so much for staying with me, reading, commenting, and sending in your own pictures -- keep it coming! For now, don't forget to check out today's post here .

Redner's Fresh Market Opened:  2019 Previous Tenants:  Genuardi's (1992-2012) > Keller's Family Market (2016-2017) Location:  2850 Audubon Village Dr, Audubon, PA Photographed:  July 22, 2021 It's our last store in the 276 corridor group! And we're ending on a high note with this store. The 46,000 square foot space was constructed in 1992 by Genuardi's before closing with the chain in 2012. In 2016, a Philadelphia grocer called Keller's Family Market moved into the space, before closing almost immediately. (I suspect that the corner grocer was overwhelmed in this large space, and execution looked pretty weak with no renovation and huge sections of the store turned into weirdly massive seating areas .) In 2019, the established no-frills Pennsylvania supermarket chain Redner's Warehouse Markets announced they would be moving into the space, but as their new higher-end concept Redner's Fresh Market. Additional locations of Redner's Fresh Market