TOUR: Weis Markets - Pennsburg, PA

Weis Markets

Opened: 2005

Previous Tenants: Ames

Location: 498 Pottstown Ave, Pennsburg, PA

Photographed: January 6, 2020

We are here in the tiny town of Pennsburg, PA (not even 4000 people, which by my standards is quite small) for a Weis located in a former Ames department store. The supermarket takes up around 54,000 square feet of this strip mall, with a 35,000 square foot Ace hardware next door. It's possible that the Ames encompassed both of these spaces, or that the Ace was previously a grocery store next to the 54,000 square foot Ames.

This store has gotten a very simple version of the latest decor package that we most recently saw in Doylestown.

In a very standard layout for Weis, beer/wine and cafe, prepared foods, and deli line the left side of the grand aisle with produce on the right. Bakery and seafood are at the back of the grand aisle with meat and dairy taking up the rest of the perimeter and frozen on the far right side.

While I don't think this store looks bad, I would say that this decor doesn't work quite as well in the older and less-deluxe locations.

I do still like it here, though, but I'm not convinced it's a major improvement over the previous decor package.

Cheese and bakery felt a little abbreviated compared to other Weis stores, despite the fact that this store is not that small.

I really love the red tile around the meat and seafood area, though. That design is carried through into the meat department...

Although I believe the fixtures are much older, probably from this store's opening. Meat becomes cold cuts and dairy at the far right side of the back wall...

Notice the updated aisle markers and promotional signage across the top of the shelving.

Milk at the back of the last aisles.

I must say that I think this store is not very exciting. Like every Weis I've visited, it's clean, well-stocked, and good for food shopping (I really enjoy shopping at Weis because of their storebrand selection and prices). But it's just very plain.

The last aisle is dairy and frozen.

And in the front corner of the store is the bread department, with the front-end out of frame to the right in the below picture.

That about wraps up our tour of this Weis -- pleasant enough but not all that special. We do have a few things of note here on the front-end. First, I am fairly certain the structure above the checkouts is left over from the red and white 90s decor package -- see here. Second, there's a remnant of the later decor package I linked above in Newton...

...the Thank You sign that remains on the front wall, for some reason. It doesn't particularly match the rest of the store, but I suppose it's not horribly ugly so they just left it.

And that wraps up our nothern Delaware Valley coverage! We are moving on to the next valley tomorrow, with the beginning of the Lehigh Valley!