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Landis Supermarket Owner: Paul & Mary Landis Opened:  2004 Cooperative:  none (UNFI supplied) Location:  841 Gravel Pk, Schwenksville, PA Photographed:  January 6, 2020 It's time for another Landis Supermarket! We saw one about eight miles to the west in Sanatoga yesterday, and today's store is another Thriftway that was sold to Landis. This one, though, was a Renninger's Thriftway that became a Landis in 2004. Landis was previously a member of the Thriftway cooperative but broke off prior to the 2015-16 bankruptcy of the Thriftway/Shop n Bag group. This store is slightly smaller than the Pottstown store, at around 31,000 square feet, and clearly is slightly older. Again, we see updated decor/signage but not flooring or fixtures. The store is also a little more limited, with no service seafood or bakery, no prepared foods, and no cafe. Produce lines both sides of the first aisle, with meat on the back wall. Deli is in the back left corner with what used to be a...

Landis Supermarket Owner: Paul & Mary Landis Opened:  2016 Cooperative:  none (UNFI supplied) Location:  2190 E High St, Pottstown, PA Photographed:  January 6, 2020 Here in Pottstown we're touring the Landis Supermarket in the Sanatoga area, which was built in 1998 as the Sanatoga Thriftway which closed in 2015 when the Thriftway-Shop n Bag cooperative was dissolving. The 35,000 square foot location was acquired by local chain Landis Supermarkets in 2016 and joined four other locations in the chain. It seems that Landis did some light renovations when they moved in, but I think the majority of the store -- especially the layout -- is left over from the Thriftway. The decor is Landis, though. We enter to a kind of grand aisle with a cafe in the front right corner with bakery next to it. Prepared foods and deli are on the right-side wall with produce in the back right corner. Seafood and meat are on the back wall, with frozen and dairy on the left side wall of th...