Gerrity's ShurSave
Owner: Joyce Fasula
Opened: 1984 - 2022
Previous Tenants: Sunshine Market
Later Tenants: Gerrity's The Fresh Grocer (2022- )
Cooperative: ShurSave
Location: 552 Union St, Luzerne, PA
Photographed: August 12, 2020
Local chain Sunshine Market built the 45,000 square foot store we're touring today, as a replacement for an older store on the same property according to
JoshAustin610. Gerrity's moved in in 1984, originally as ShurSave and now as The Fresh Grocer, since 2022. The exterior has a distinctive Gerrity's look that we'll come to be very familiar with as we tour their stores in and around the Wyoming Valley, although lately they are being
changed in appearance significantly with their switch to The Fresh Grocer.
We're touring this store as it appeared in the summer of 2020, and I'm not sure how (if at all) the inside has been changed following the switch to The Fresh Grocer. We enter to the grand aisle on the left side of the store with bakery, deli, and seafood on the left side wall and produce opposite on the right side of the grand aisle. Meats are on the back wall, dairy is (oddly enough) in the first grocery aisle, and frozen foods are at the far right side of the store.
The bakery and prepared foods are at the front of the grand aisle. It looks like this store is pretty recently renovated, and that may mean that no work has to be done to it for some time despite the switch to Fresh Grocer.
At the very least, it's in great shape and (like most Gerrity's) seems to be maintained very well.
I like this version of the decor a bit better than what we saw in
Hanover, too, as it looks a little warmer and more inviting, and less outdated.
Seafood is in the back left corner, with cold cuts behind it.
I liked this store a lot, as it feels up to date but comfortable, spacious but not too big, and well-organized.
Dairy is in the first grocery aisle, labeled aisle 2. It's a little strange, but I guess it works.
And I like the department signage here! I like that they seem to be a little more deluxe than Hanover, with things like the awnings and the pictures attached to each sign.
And I like the aisle markers! Can't say the same about the flooring. I wish the wood texture continued throughout, or something like that.
The grocery aisles are pleasant but not very exciting. As you can see below, the frozen foods department begins on the back wall of the store and continues down the last aisle.
10 aisles in total, and like some of the other stores we've been seeing, they're split in half front-to-back...
I will say I do not care for the hanging shower curtain-looking things Gerrity's (and some others) used as coronavirus barriers (which, of course, don't work anyway because the particles simply waft around the single panel -- even worse when people thought that was a viable alternative to wearing a mask, but I digress, we are -- hopefully! -- beyond all of that now).
There are several supermarkets in the Luzerne/Kingston area on this side of the river, but tomorrow we're headed back across the Susquehanna for a look at a store in Plains here on The Market Report!
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