BG's Value Market Owner: Dianne Koval Opened: ca. 1980s Cooperative: none Location: 70 Kings Village, Minersville, PA Photographed: November 29, 2019 Welcome to Kings Village, a strip mall just outside of Minersville, PA. The strip mall appears to have been constructed in the early 1960s with a roughly 50,000 square foot King's department store (later Jamesway, now subdivided) and a 14,000 square foot Centennial A&P. The A&P was later expanded out to just over 21,000 square feet, before closing somewhere around the 1980s. BG's Value Market opened at some point thereafter, although I really don't know when. It also appears they take up only the original 14,000 square foot A&P, with the expansion now being filled by a Family Dollar. Based on the name, I was expecting BG's to be a discount store, something like this . Instead, it's a full supermarket with a little bit of everything and a great bakery. It's not high-end, but it's certainly n...