The Market Report

Community Natural Food Store Owner: Annamarie Burkholder Opened:  ca. 2011 in this location Cooperative:  none Location:  128 E Main St, New Holland, PA Photographed:  August 20, 2019 Just next door from yesterday's Save-Mor Groceries is today's Community Natural Food Store. As I mentioned on that post, these two used to share a building on Railroad Avenue, until around 2011 this store moved to this current building, which as far as I can tell was purpose-built for this store. Save-Mor, in turn, moved out of the Railroad Avenue storefront to the neighboring one here in 2015. I guess these two can't be apart for too long. The selection here is rather different from what we might expect in other natural food stores. Prominent in the front of the 7500 square foot storefront are bulk foods and natural HABA/home goods. I might expect to have produce or some other perishable like that in the front, but the perishables are actually all at the back of the store in a separa...

Save-Mor Groceries Owner: Lee Stauffer Opened:  2015 in this location Cooperative:  none Location:  138 E Main St, New Holland, PA Photographed:  August 20, 2019 Here in downtown New Holland, we have two grocery stores that are basically right next door to each other, Save-Mor Groceries and the Community Natural Food Store. Save-Mor Groceries opened up shop here in 2015, after moving from 14 S Railroad Avenue around the corner where they were even closer to the natural food store (which shared the building). Today, the natural food store is next door to Save-Mor but in a new-build building. The former Ritz theater in town has seen a few uses , but Save-Mor is the latest tenant in the 4200 square foot space. There's not a whole lot left from the theater inside, but the marquee and facade largely has been preserved outside. This is another salvage grocery store, although much smaller than the last one we saw . Perishables here are kept to a minimum. The focus is on sa...