The Market Report

Earth Fare Opened: July 2020 Previous Tenants:  A&P > Earth Fare (closed February 2020) Location:  74 Folly Rd Blvd, West Ashley, Charleston, SC Photographed:  January 2022 Yesterday we saw a former A&P that's since become an IGA, about three and a half miles outside of downtown Charleston on route 17. We are about two miles outside of downtown here, where routes 17 and 171 (Savannah Hwy and Folly Rd Blvd) come togethr to see another former A&P. This Earth Fare takes up the former A&P along with the former Walgreens next to it, as we see in this historical photo . Based on the store model, I'd wager a bet that this was a pre-Centennial store, probably of the same era as the Doscher's, but was never converted to the Centennial format. And it still has a tower! The combined A&P and Walgreens spaces add up to just under 25,000 square feet. We enter on the right side, in the former Walgreens space, to produce in the front right corner and bulk foods, ...

Except not really, as the 50-store chain has gone out of business . Our contributor Atlas K. has offered photos of his apron from when he was an employee of the chain. That's all the memorabilia we have for today, but I promise Grocery Archaeology is coming back soon with coverage of store locations!