The Market Report

Martin's Country Market Owner: John Martin Opened:  1983 Cooperative:  IGA (Family Owned Markets) Location:  1717 W Main St, Ephrata, PA Photographed:  August 20, 2019 It's time for our next Family Owned Markets-affiliated IGA with Martin's Country Market! The 52,000 square foot store was constructed in 1983 along with the rest of the Lincoln Mall, including a furniture store owned by the same family. Speaking of the same family, the owner of this store also owns the John F. Martin brand of meat and deli products (his name is John F. Martin, which will not surprise you). Their cheddar is excellent. The missing letter in the supermarket's sign did not give me high hopes for the store's interior, but I was very pleasantly surprised. According to the store's website , they did a full remodel in 2012. I'm trying to remember the specific layout, but I believe grocery aisles run parallel to the front wall. Bakery, produce, and dairy are on the left-side wall, wi...

The Market at Oregon Dairy Owner: Victor Hurst Opened:  1979, previous farm store opened 1974 Cooperative:  IGA (Family Owned Markets) Location:  2900 Oregon Pk, Lititz, PA Photographed:  August 20, 2019 As we've seen, there are quite a few large independent country supermarkets in this part of Pennsylvania, such as Shady Maple and Yoder's , and on that list is also The Market at Oregon Dairy. Oregon Dairy is a large, family-owned, working farm that has this roughly 70,000 square foot supermarket, family restaurant, and ice cream shop. The supermarket is a member of the IGA-affiliated Family Owned Markets, with a few other stores including Yoder's. When I visited in 2019, the store was still affiliated with whatever the evolution of AWI was, but they were C&S-affiliated and still selling Best Yet and Full Circle items. We enter to the produce department on the right side of the store. I'm not 100% on my memory of the layout, but I believe produce is in the fron...

Yoder's Country Market Owner: John and Darlene Yoder Opened:  1984 Cooperative:  IGA (Family Owned Markets) Location:  14 S Tower Rd, New Holland, PA Photographed:  August 20, 2019 We just left the Shady Maple Farm Market in East Earl , a massive country grocery store with a huge buffet restaurant attached to it. And now we're about two miles away at Yoder's Country Market, another massive country grocery store with a huge buffet restaurant attached to it. Combined, this building takes up over 112,000 square feet. The grocery store first opened in 1980 and may have been expanded to its current size, most likely around 2000. We enter to the bakery department in the front right corner, with produce in the first aisle. Deli/cheese and meat/seafood are at the back of the first aisle, with the rest of the meat department on the back wall. Dairy is beyond that on the back wall and continuing down aisle 12, with frozen in aisles 10-12. There are 19 aisles total, and the la...