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Snapshot: Price Rite Marketplace - Scranton, PA

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By Zachary

Price Rite Marketplace of Scranton
Opened: between 2000 and 2008
Previous Tenants: Food Fair (before 1957 - 1970) > Price Chopper (1984-after 2000)
Location: 611 Luzerne St, Scranton, PA
Photographed: December 22, 2018
Today's pictures aren't great, I know, but they're what we have. This Price Rite is around 35,000 square feet and located west of downtown Scranton. It appears to have been built as a Food Fair in the 1950s before closing by 1970, then a Price Chopper from 1984 until somewhere between 2000 and 2008. (It's likely that this store was a replacement for this one.)
It looks like Price Rite pretty extensively stripped the store before they opened by 2008, since I don't see any Price Chopper remnants in the pictures I can find online of the Price Rite's interior. There's another supermarket about a third of a mile west here, which we'll be touring tomorrow!
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  1. Retail RegentsOctober 26, 2023 at 4:46 AM

    Looking at archives of Price Chopper's website from 2000, I can certainly say #169 was this store's replacement that year, given the pre-2002 glass-and-pillar facade and late 1990s/early 2000s entry configuration.

    While I believe a succeeding business gutted out the space, I suspect this store pre-dated the glass-and-pillar exterior design if we are going by the design of similar stores that opened around the same time (see the original Vandenburgh Price Chopper in Troy, NY for what a 1984-built Price Chopper looked like: https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Photos-Price-Chopper-through-the-years-14438377.php). Was there anything in this space between Food Fair and Price Chopper? Perhaps it at one point bore one of their exterior designs.

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    1. ZacharyDecember 3, 2023 at 11:00 AM

      Thanks for the history here! I unfortunately couldn't find any records of who occupied the space between Food Fair and Price Chopper, although I have to assume there was at least one tenant during that period.

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    2. Retail RegentsMarch 18, 2024 at 3:24 AM

      And speaking of that Price Chopper #169 - it is scheduled to close in mid-April.

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    3. ZacharyMarch 18, 2024 at 7:52 PM

      Thanks for the news!

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