The Market Report

Original Grocery Tenant: A&P Address: 1213 E Broad St, Tamaqua, PA Opened:  1970s Closed:  1993 Later Tenants:  Ahart's Thriftway (1993-1999) > BRL Grocery Outlet (closed 2018) Photographed:  November 29, 2019 We're now just outside of Tamaqua, a town of around 7000 which these days has a Boyer's right downtown, where we're headed tomorrow. The town also used to have a second supermarket, built as an A&P that closed in 1993 and became an Ahart's Thriftway. Around 2000, the space became a BRL Grocery Outlet, a local chain of discount grocery stores also referred to as Buy Rite Liquidators. They also took a former ACME in Coal Township, seen here . BRL closed in 2018 and mostly cleared out the space, except for some assorted shopping carts and some refrigerator cases seen at the back of the store. It's lucky there were lights on inside! As you can see in the first picture, I was here after dark, so it was just good luck that we can actually see inside...

CTown Reading Plaza Supermarket Owner: unknown Opened:  ca. 2000 Previous Tenants:  ACME Markets (1960s-1996) > BRL Grocery Outlet (1996-ca. 2000) Cooperative:  Krasdale Foods Location:  600 E Greenwich St, Reading, PA Photographed:  August 20, 2019 Our second CTown in Reading (see the first here ) is on the northern end of center city, and is also much larger that the first at around 26,000 square feet. It appears to be under a different owner but at the very least is much better-run, even though it's also an older store. It was constructed in the 1960s as a pitched-roof ACME, of course, and closed in 1996. Shortly thereafter it was taken over by BRL Grocery Outlet, also known as Buy Rite Liquidators, which only lasted a few years before CTown moved in. It seems that BRL mostly cleared out the store interior so unfortunately we have very little left from ACME inside. But of course the outside still looks familiar. We enter to produce and deli/bakery in the ...