TOUR: GIANT Food Stores - Plumsteadville, PA

GIANT Food Stores

Opened: 2006

Previous Tenants: Stewart's Thriftway (closed 1991) > Clemens (1991-2006)

Location: 5835 Easton Rd, Plumsteadville, PA

Photographed: January 12, 2019

Contributor: Lucas from Grocery Voice

Thanks to Lucas from Grocery Voice (and A&P Preservation) for today's pictures! He's given us a few sets of store photos we'll be seeing, as he lives out in this area. Today he's providing us a look at the GIANT Food Stores of Plumsteadville, PA, which was originally a Thriftway and then was purchased by Clemens in the 1990s. Although Clemens sold this store to GIANT in 2006, we still can tell the store was here, such as with the facade that looks nearly identical to the McCaffrey's in Blue Bell. Other signs are less subtle...

The old Clemens lettering is still very clearly visible behind the GIANT sign on the main mall sign -- or at least was when Lucas took the pictures back in early 2019. The store has since been remodeled, per pictures on Google.

You enter the store through its vestibule, then into produce on the left side of the store. It looks like the meat department is on the back wall followed by prepared foods, deli, and bakery in the back right corner, with dairy and frozen also on the right side of the store.

Lucas captured the store pre-remodel, but unfortunately, I don't really see any pictures of the store following its remodel online.

The store appears to be around only 36,000 square feet, or rather small for a GIANT. Note that the Doylestown GIANT is double that size.

Here we're looking across the front-end (to our right upon entering the store).

Lucas shows us that, even before the store was remodeled, they had begun bringing in new category and promotional signage.

I liked this decor package, as it was always more exciting than what Stop & Shop was using at the time. I'm not clear on which decor package the store has now.

A look at the grocery aisles. I always thought this setup was better than what some stores did -- that there is lighting in both the shelving itself and on the ceiling. Some stores, like A&P, would exclude the ceiling lighting if there was lighting on the shelving.

As we can see, this store is not small but not quite as large as many GIANTs.

Looks like a few areas are missing their shelving tops. Do we know if these remain in the renovated stores, or were they removed?

Some great shots of the deli-bakery area with its wonderful (since-removed) decor.

It also looks like, though, the prepared foods department had been significantly scaled down or removed entirely since this store was originally renovated or opened.

Great closeup of an aisle marker. Some other signage that Lucas caught around the store...

And the bakery, which appears to be otherwise without a department sign, is in the back right corner.

It looks like these fixtures may be slightly newer than the rest of the store, although they could have just been refurbished.

15 aisles in total, with dairy lining the outside of the last aisle.

It looks like, even though this store is smaller and older, it was (and is) in good condition. The fact that it's been remodeled suggests its closure is not impending.

And now for a look at the front end...

That's all for this GIANT tour, and thanks Lucas for your pictures! We'll see a few more stores he's photographed shortly.

For now, we're headed about three miles west for a now-closed independent supermarket over on The Independent Edition!