Look Inside: Los Compadres Mini Market - Easton, PA

Los Compdres Mini Market

Owner: Edward Ovalle

Opened: 2013

Cooperative: none
Location: 1649 Washington Ave, Easton, PA

Photographed: January 8, 2021

That's quite the building exterior! This structure was built in the 1950s as a Food Fair, and I would recommend reading JoshAustin610's description of its history here. What he identifies as a former video store is now a small grocery store on the left side of the building, taking up maybe 3,000 square feet of the roughly 12,000 square foot building.

It's not hard to tell this building was a grocery store, since it has all of the trademark features but also the beautiful marquee-style feature over what used to be the main entrance (see this example in Trenton for another similar design).

The side of the building is clearly an old supermarket, though, between the columns and the bricked-over windows!

What appears to be the former Food Fair entrance is now the entrance to Los Compadres Mini Market, a small bodega/grocer.

It's got a solid selection of some basics but not much else because of its size. Another big-chain supermarket used to be just a few blocks north, and that's now a CVS which briefly occupied part of this building. Head over to Grocery Archaeology tomorrow to check it out!