Weis Markets

Fredericksburg, VA location (ex-Bloom/Food Lion [due to Ahold Delhaize merger])

 Weis Markets are a chain from Susquehanna Valley. I first heard of them when I was in the mid-Hudson Valley, but they left just after I did! To boot, they had acquired Albany Public Markets up the river years before, and perhaps I went to one of those (that would be a post all its own), although some of those became Grand Union (see earlier article). They had entered the Southern Tier when they'd bought out  trailblazing local indie chain Giant in Broome County (not the same one owned by Ahold [Delhaize]), bringing them back to New York. I was in Binghamton on a bus layover between Ithaca and getting back to Syracuse. Knowing ahead of time I could squeeze it in (although I had to use a cab and Uber because I wouldn't have enough time for the local bus in an area I don't know that well), I decided to head across town after two long decades. It was a "Weis" choice. While they may not go north of 607, they could expand around the area code and Pennsylvania (I scrambled on Bing and Google, but some spots I found at first wound up being too close to existing locations and competitors, which explains why they're vacant, but I can only go so far with areas that are I may never be 100 miles of again, and other chains would have to fill that vacuum). Hope they do try to get at least one or more of these to materialise so there are at least 200 locations total. I would finally make it to Weis again in late 2025 in Vestal, just near Giants offices, which still let some of the stores they sold to Weis. The Elmira store in Twin Tiers is the only non-Giant store left in the state today, and with their own gas to boot, while just  across the region, you'd have to go to the Sunoco in Johnson City for their rewards savings (the one in Endwell/Endicott only works for the other place). Now to bring everything to these communities:

Ithaca - NY 13/34/96, former Hobby Lobby (not the one shown below)

Owego - NY 17C; former P&C, Tops and Grand Union (fills gap between Elmira and Vestal)

Cortland - US 11 & NY 41 - former Dollar Bazaar, NY 222 & 282 - former Grand Union (G-d forbid, even though it's a small town, and there are rumours of it closing, but I'm not the Baz Bamigboye of retail, mind)

Sidney - CR 23, former BK5 Great American

Horseheads - S Main St, former Ames (although it's 5 miles from existing store in Elmira proper)

Greene - S Chenango St, former Ardees Great American

Somerset, PA - 313 Plank Rd & PA 31, former Bi-Lo (the former sister chain to P&C, not Tops [see earlier article on that BI-LO])

Johnstown, PA - 2449 Bedford St, former Ideal Market, downtown

Taylor, PA - S Main Ave; former Price Chopper (below)

Select former locations:

Delmar - Albany Public Markets, NY 443; closed mid-'80s (vaguely remember, even though I was young, and just able to confirm today)

Kingston - Kings Plaza, US 9W; closed fall 2000; now Marshalls (visited May-June that year)

Binghamton - NY 7; previously Giant (not the one shown below)

Vestal - NY 17C (likely underperforming and too close to the two other stores)

Albany County - Albany Public Markets; 1967-86? (only recently rediscovered on Facebook)

Fredericksburg, VA - previously Food Lion (not the one shown above)

Former Giant in Binghamton with added sign and CVS

Fantasy Scranton area store is well between two real ones

Former Tops in Ithaca had become a Dicks instead

Last three images under fair use. No AI was used, or even Photoshop. Just cheap OG MS Paint!