The Market Report

Original Grocery Tenant: Giant Market Address: 1199 Texas Palmyra Hwy, Honesdale, PA Opened:  ca. 1972 Closed:  1993 Later Tenants:  Insalaco's > subdivided Photographed:  May 28, 2023 This 25,000 square foot store was built as a Giant Market at the eastern end of the Route 6 Mall at some point around 1972 before becoming an Insalaco's. Insalaco's then moved to a former Kmart, before ultimately becoming a Weis . As AFB pointed out a few months ago (which I didn't know), there were actually four  Giant chains at one point or another. Giant-MD and Giant-PA, of course, both of which are now owned by Ahold. There was also a chain in the Binghamton area, mostly acquired by Weis; and yet another (which I didn't realize was separate from the Binghamton chain), based in Scranton and at its peak, with 25 locations. In 1971, the Scranton-based Giant Market grew from 20 to 25 stores with the acquisition of five Food Fair stores. The chain declared bankruptcy in 1983,...

Weis Markets Opened: 2008 Previous Tenants:  Grant's > Kmart > Insalaco's > Mr. Z's (1999-2008) Location:  1199 Texas Palmyra Hwy, Honesdale, PA Photographed:  May 28, 2023 I really enjoy shopping at Weis from time to time, even though there's none too close to me, but the truth is many of their stores are a bit boring. The Honesdale one has a bit of interesting history, though! This store was built as a Grant's department store, later Kmart, and then an Insalaco's supermarket (owned by Penn Traffic). Weis has been here since 2008, and they appear to have renovated the store roughly immediately after they opened (or maybe before -- I don't know what the transition process was like). We enter to a very nice grand aisle, although we can tell the bones are older, with produce in the front right corner. As we proceed down the grand aisle, we enter the hot food and deli area with those service counters on the left side in an island, then seafood at the ...

Dave's Super Duper Owner: Dave Flederbach Opened:  1985 (Dave's Foodtown 2017-2018) Cooperative:  none Location:  200 Willow Ave, Honesdale, PA Photographed:  December 22, 2018 Welcome to Dave's Super Duper in Honesdale! It appears that Super Duper was once a cooperative of supermarkets ranging from Ohio to Pennsylvania (see here and here ), but these days most of those stores have been lost. One of the very few remaining stores is here in Honesdale, PA, with other remaining locations in East Rochester, OH  and  Kennedy, NY , although the Super Duper cooperative has long since dissolved. In fact, Dave's Super Duper briefly actually joined another cooperative. The store became Dave's Foodtown in 2017 , though oddly the store left the following year and returned to Dave's Super Duper. I'm not clear on why they joined or why they left, but by the time I got there, it had returned to its second incarnation as Super Duper. Notice, in fact, the signage on the f...