The Market Report

Gerrity's ShurSave Owner: Joyce Fasula Opened:  1993 - 2022 Previous Tenants:  unknown Later Tenants:  Gerrity's The Fresh Grocer (2022- ) Cooperative:  ShurSave Location:  1782 N Keyser Ave, Scranton, PA Photographed:  August 12, 2020 We are returning to the city of Scranton for one more post! This store is all the way in the northwestern corner of the city just south of interstate 81. I'm not completely clear on the 48,000 square foot store's history, but across the strip mall is a 19,000 square foot store originally constructed as a Food Fair and by 1970 was sold to the local Giant Market chain, then to Gerrity's which opened here in 1993. More details are here . On the right side of the grand aisle is deli, prepared foods, and seafood, with bakery and produce on the left side. Greeting cards are in a slightly strange alcove on the back wall, with dairy in aisle 1 and meats on the back wall. Frozen foods are in the last aisle and HABA and a pharmacy are...

Gerrity's ShurSave Owner: Joyce Fasula Opened:  1980 - 2022 Previous Tenants:  Giant Market (1951 - after 1967) > Short Stop Food Market (late 1970s - 1980) Later Tenants:  Gerrity's The Fresh Grocer (2022- ) Cooperative:  ShurSave Location:  702 S Main Ave, Scranton, PA Photographed:  August 12, 2020 Welcome to the original Gerrity's Supermarket! At 25,000 square feet, this is also the smallest, having been built in 1951 as a Giant Market. The store closed at some point after 1967, later becoming the Short Stop Food Market by the late 1970s and closing in 1980. Gerrity's, previously a butcher shop, moved in and opened their first supermarket here in 1980. (Incidentally, this was also the first store to be converted to The Fresh Grocer when Gerrity's joined Wakefern in 2022.) We enter to bakery and produce in the front right corner with meat and dairy in the first aisle (I commented on the meat being up front on our last Gerrity's , which was also a Gia...

Gerrity's ShurSave Owner: Joyce Fasula Opened:  1994 - 2022 Previous Tenants:  Giant Market (closed 1994) Later Tenants:  Gerrity's The Fresh Grocer (2022- ) Cooperative:  ShurSave Location:  320 Meadow Ave, East Mountain, Scranton, PA Photographed:  August 12, 2020 On the edge of an otherwise fairly residential neighborhood in southeastern Scranton, we encounter today's Gerrity's! It's around 36,000 square feet and housed in a former Giant Market location. More detail on the Scranton-based chain soon. We can feel inside that this store is older, but it's definitely been updated nicely. We enter to the grand aisle with bakery in the front right corner, meat on the right side, produce on the left side, and deli on the back. This is the only Gerrity's I can think of that has the meat department right up front like this, making me wonder if maybe the layout is left at least in part from Giant Market. Gerrity's opened here in 1994 and in 2022 converted the ...