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McCaffrey's Food Markets Owner: Jim McCaffrey III Opened:  2016 Cooperative:  none Location:  1301 W Skippack Pk, Blue Bell, PA Photographed:  July 22, 2021 We are touring our next McCaffrey's Food Market, which I believe is also the largest in the chain at apparently around 75,000 square feet. This store was built as a Clemens, which became SuperFresh in 2006 and McCaffrey's in 2016 when A&P went under. If you look carefully at my first picture, you'll notice that there's still a Clemens Cleaners, presumably unrelated to the supermarket chain, right next door. We enter through a hallway that then turns us to the left into the grand aisle. At the front of the grand aisle are floral, coffee/juice, and bakery, with produce behind that and then meat, seafood, and cheese at the back. The rest of the meat department lines the back wall, with deli in the back right corner along with the beer and wine department. Dairy is in the first aisle and frozen is in the last. ...

Assi Plaza International Market Owner: Syng Rhee Opened:  2004 Cooperative:  none Location:  1222 Welsh Rd, North Wales, PA Photographed:  January 6, 2020 Today's store tour is one that I've been excited about for quite a while. It's gonna be a fun one. Right off from the facade, many supermarket fans will be able to tell that this 60,000 square foot space was not always the Assi Plaza International Market. It was constructed in 1996 as a SuperFresh which closed in 2001 and shortly thereafter became a location of Assi Plaza, a chain of Korean supermarkets with a location each in Illinois, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, plus one that was previously in Flushing, New York but has been demolished. Maybe the most interesting thing about this particular Assi Plaza is that its decor is completely left over from its days as a SuperFresh, with only a few modifications. We can easily recognize the wall decor here (with the exception of the barn and flora and fauna around) as well...