Weiser's Market Owner: Tim Weiser Opened: 1998 Cooperative: none Location: 805 Main St, Akron, PA Photographed: August 20, 2019 Although we've been seeing a lot of really large independent supermarkets, there are smaller independent supermarkets too. The town of Akron, PA, with a population of around 4000, has one supermarket and it's the 7000 square foot Weiser's Market in the middle of town. The store opened in 1998, but has been a supermarket for long before that. As we see, it's an old building that's been fixed up a bit with some new fixtures and fresh paint on the walls. The flooring might be much older terrazzo, though. Produce lines the first aisle, with meat and deli on the back wall (pictured above). Dairy and frozen are in the last aisle, with baked goods on the front wall -- although products are definitely baked in-store, there's no service bakery department. As we'll see, there are two registers that actually run perpendicular to the g...