Snapshot: Double Tree Market - Mayfair, Philadelphia, PA

Double Tree Market

Owner: unknown

Opened: 2016

Cooperative: none
Location: 3500 Cottman Ave, Mayfair, Philadelphia, PA

Photographed: July 2021

Just up the street from yesterday's former Penn Fruit is this small grocer, which looks to be in the range of roughly 1600 square feet. It's really more of a convenience store or a bodega than a supermarket, but there are so many small independent grocers like this one throughout Philadelphia. The balance of Philadelphia is very different from the balance of grocery stores in New York City, which I'm more familiar with -- NY has many more supermarkets, but they're much smaller. Philadelphia has fewer, but much larger, supermarkets. Okay, those are extreme examples, but you get the point. I'm sure this spot has been a grocery store for many decades, but prior to Double Tree's opening in 2016, it was the Party Time Deli & Grocery. Tomorrow, we're headed up to Roosevelt Blvd (US-1) for our first of two stores up there before returning south to Frankford Ave for a few stops. Head over to Grocery Archaeology to check it out!