The Market Report

Boyer's Food Markets Owner: Dean Walker Opened: unknown Previous Tenants:  A&P > TJ Bart's Location:  125 E 3rd St, Berwick, PA Photographed:  November 29, 2019 It's time for our final Coal Region supermarket! It's not hard to tell what this 16,600 square foot store store was before its current tenant, although it briefly spent time as a TJ Bart's between A&P and Boyer's. I believe this is our final Boyer's, and it's not exactly the most exciting of them all. It looks a lot like the other stores of this era we've seen. Unfortunately, while many Boyer's stores are located in old big-chain supermarkets like this one, very few have any real remnants from the original tenants left. This one is no exception. You enter on the right side and walk across the front-end to produce in the front left corner. Cold cuts and frozen meat are in the first aisle on the left side, with meats and deli on the back wall. Frozen and dairy are on the right ...

Boyer's Food Markets Owner: Dean Walker Opened:  early 2000s Previous Tenants:  Sunshine Market (closed 1996) > Gerrity's ShurSave (1996-early 2000s) Location:  999 W 15th St, Hazleton, PA Photographed:  December 22, 2018 It's time for another Boyer's, this one in more of an urban location than they typically are! With a population of 29,000, Hazleton isn't a major city but it's definitely a sizeable town. This store also has some interesting history, having been built as an outpost of the local Sunshine Market chain, then closed by 1996 when it became a Gerrity's, which in turn appears to have sold the store to Boyer's in the mid 2000s. It's certainly a unique building, which I believe is thanks to Sunshine. The store has very obviously been expanded many times, bringing it to its current 26,000 square feet from the original 10,500 square foot space. In the picture above, it's not hard to tell where the store was expanded out to the right. T...

Boyer's Food Markets Owner: Dean Walker Opened:  ca. 1980s Previous Tenants:  unknown Location:  318 S Hancock St, McAdoo, PA Photographed:  November 29, 2019 For our first post back from summer break, we'll be checking out -- shocker -- a Boyer's in the Coal Region! We've seen quite a few Boyer's in the past few months, and there are a few more before we move on from this area. It's not clear who built this store, but we know that definitely from 1977 to 1988 (plus probably a little more time on either side) it was an IGA Foodliner owned by Nick Zukovich. At some point after that, Boyer's took it over (possibly when Boyer's was still IGA-affiliated, and they later switched to Great Valu before becoming completely independent). In fact, you can still kind of see the outline of the Great Valu lettering behind the Food Markets and Makes you feel so good! lettering. Heading in, this looks a lot like a lot of the other Boyer's of this generation we'...