The Market Report

Boyer's Food Markets Owner: Dean Walker Opened:  ca. 2000 Previous Tenants:  ACME Markets (1959-1995) > TJ Bart's (1995-1999) > Insalaco's (1999-2001) Location:  210 Cedar St, Tamaqua, PA Photographed:  November 29, 2019 Today's post is a quick look at the Boyer's Food Market in Tamaqua, where we saw yesterday a former supermarket just outside of town. This was towards the end of the day for me, and I had visited quite a few Boyer's that day, so I was a bit Boyered out and decided not to go into this store -- a decision I now regret because in 2021, the store received a major interior and exterior renovation. There are a few really good photos on Google Maps of the store, so we can now see what the outside , produce , and grocery aisles look like. Looking great -- but I think that's still ACME flooring in the last picture, just refinished! This store was constructed as an ACME, then became a TJ Bart's for a few years before very briefly becoming...

Original Grocery Tenant: A&P Address: 1213 E Broad St, Tamaqua, PA Opened:  1970s Closed:  1993 Later Tenants:  Ahart's Thriftway (1993-1999) > BRL Grocery Outlet (closed 2018) Photographed:  November 29, 2019 We're now just outside of Tamaqua, a town of around 7000 which these days has a Boyer's right downtown, where we're headed tomorrow. The town also used to have a second supermarket, built as an A&P that closed in 1993 and became an Ahart's Thriftway. Around 2000, the space became a BRL Grocery Outlet, a local chain of discount grocery stores also referred to as Buy Rite Liquidators. They also took a former ACME in Coal Township, seen here . BRL closed in 2018 and mostly cleared out the space, except for some assorted shopping carts and some refrigerator cases seen at the back of the store. It's lucky there were lights on inside! As you can see in the first picture, I was here after dark, so it was just good luck that we can actually see inside...