The Market Report

      We are moving out from Philadelphia into lower Montgomery County! The space between the Philadelphia area and the Allentown area (the Lehigh Valley) is mostly filled by Bucks and Montgomery counties. We are beginning with a look at the southern part of Montgomery County with Elkins Park and Cheltenham/Wyncote right on the Philadelphia border, then moving north to Glenside and Jenkintown. This is a pretty short group, so we're going to spend two weeks in this area before beginning to head west farther into Pennsylvania. On Monday, we're going to see an Asian supermarket over on  The Market Report , so head over there to check it out!

  We are moving out from Philadelphia into lower Montgomery County! The space between the Philadelphia area and the Allentown area (the Lehigh Valley) is mostly filled by Bucks and Montgomery counties. We are beginning with a look at the southern part of Montgomery County with Elkins Park and Cheltenham/Wyncote right on the Philadelphia border, then moving north to Glenside and Jenkintown. This is a pretty short group, so we're going to spend two weeks in this area before beginning to head west farther into Pennsylvania. On Monday, we're going to see an Asian supermarket here on The Market Report, so come back to check it out!

Weavers Way Co-Op Owner: cooperatively owned Opened:  2010 Cooperative:  none Location:  8424 Germantown Ave, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA Photographed:  July 22, 2021 It's time for our last Philadelphia store! This little 6000 square foot store (or so) is located right in the heart of the quaint, historical Chestnut Hill neighborhood on Germantown Avenue. It's the second location of Weavers Way that we've seen, with the first a little over 2 miles south in Mount Airy .  It's appropriate, too, since that was the first Weavers Way to open and this was the second. The third, out in Ambler, is roughly 5 and a half miles north and we'll be seeing that soon. There's a fourth in Philadelphia on the way, too. The grocery store takes up this storefront, which is really two storefronts combined, and it used to be Caruso's Market until around 2009. I don't really know anything about Caruso's, so let's take a look at Weavers Way. Much like the Mount Air...

The Fresh Market Opened: 2016 P revious Tenants:  none Location:  8208 Germantown Ave, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA Photographed:  July 30, 2021 Welcome to our second Fresh Market store tour! I commented on the store execution improving in the post of the Bedminster Fresh Market , although I do think execution (as far as product mix and quality) varies greatly between the different stores. This one is another very well-done store, which was built new in 2016 on the ground floor of this complex. The store is in the range of 25,000 square feet, and I believe takes up the entire ground floor of this new building. The whole development is very attractively designed, and intended to tie into the historic, quaint Germantown Avenue business district -- the street of which is paved with cobblestones. Here's the entrance to the parking lot, and the supermarket's entrance faces the parking lot. We enter and turn right to go to the back right corner of the store. Produce is on t...

ACME Markets Opened: 2015 Previous Tenants:  SuperFresh (1999-2008) > Pathmark (2008-2015) Location:  7700 Crittenden St, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA Photographed:  July 30, 2021 Moving on from Mount Airy, we are starting with our first store in Chestnut Hill! This extremely green and suburban neighborhood is centered around Germantown Avenue in far northwestern Philadelphia. It's bounded to the southwest by the Wissahickon Valley Park, which stretches nearly five miles end to end. This ACME is located in a rather generic strip mall in the northeastern part of the neighborhood, so unfortunately we don't really get any of the small town-feeling charm in this particular store, but we'll get there with our next stop. A Food Fair had existed on this property until around the late 1970s, when it became an A&P. A&P then converted to SuperFresh in 1983, and was demolished in 1998 to be rebuilt and reopened as a SuperFresh the following year. The existing 47,000 s...