TOUR: GIANT Food Stores - Bartonsville, PA

GIANT Food Stores
Opened: 2009

Previous Tenants: none

Location: 65 PA-611, Bartonsville, PA

Photographed: January 15, 2021

It's time for another GIANT! This is a relatively newly-renovated store and I must say, in my opinion one of the more attractive stores with this decor package. As we'll see, this is a more deluxe remodel than Hellertown received, but to me this decor package is still too boring.

The layout is fairly standard, beginning with the beer & wine department in the front right corner of the store. Produce is in the first aisle with deli/prepared foods at the back of the produce department. Meat and seafood are on the back wall with dairy/frozen at the far left side and bakery in the front left corner.

I would say the backlit signs really work, but we need something more. The decor is far too monochromatic around the store. Especially since this store's renovation involved basically painting what was already there, it looks sloppy in departments that previously had more extensive decor...

...not to mention the tile on the walls behind the departments, which used to match the decor. Here's what this area used to look like.

The first two aisles are natural foods in the Nature's Promise department.

And on the back is Land & Sea, the meat and seafood departments.

They are displayed in a combined service counter here around the middle of the back wall.

The grocery aisles are very unremarkable. Not much to talk about here.

The store is, though, very clean and organized.

The HABA department, though, is very attractive and pharmacy is at the front of the HABA aisles.

Notice the large Plant-Based selection in the Land & Sea department, something that subsequently was moved to the natural foods selection for later stores like Doylestown.

I really like the skylights here, reminding us that the store is not that old -- having opened as a new-built in 2009. The store is massive as we can tell, coming in at just under 73,000 square feet.

Frozen foods cases may have been replaced after the store opened.

In the last aisle is the dairy department, with bread opposite it. This is a very standard layout for Ahold stores.

The problem we saw in the deli department -- where the old decor was just painted over -- can be seen again here in bakery, although I would say the end result in bakery is a bit more appealing than in the deli.

And also present on the front-end is a Starbucks, something most Ahold stores don't have.

This is the only supermarket in Bartonsville, but Tannersville about three miles north has another grocery store. Come back tomorrow to check it out!