The Independent Edition

White Haven Market Owner: Christopher Kubishin Opened:  2005 Cooperative:  none Location:  501 Main St, White Haven, PA Photographed: May 25, 2019 Welcome to White Haven, a small town of 1100 in the eastern part of the Coal Region, and incidentally the hometown of protagonist Liz Lemon on the TV show 30 Rock (although it's a heavily fictionalized, and much larger, town in the show). White Haven is located along the Lehigh River, where the Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad once had a line, and today that railroad is a bike path. While the supermarket in town is today the White Haven Market, the store of just under 10,000 square feet was built around 1970 as an ACME. In fact, it is a very flat pitched-roof building , and what used to be the side of the store is now the front as a strip mall has been constructed extending out of what used to be the front. We'll see evidence of this change inside. Before we go in, a look at the railroad heritage of the area. Here we also se...

Main Street Market Owner: Duane and Nichole Smith Opened:  1995-2022, sold in 2019 Cooperative:  none Location:  90 N Main St, Bangor, PA Photographed:  December 22, 2018 Today's store has a bit of an interesting history. As you might be able to guess from the facade in the first picture, it was built as an A&P, probably in the 1950s. In the 1970s, it became a Thriftway , then Main Street Market in 1995. I visited in late 2018 and the following year, the store was briefly closed and then sold. After some light renovation, it was reopened only to close again in 2022. The 13,000 square foot store has a great classic supermarket feeling, or I suppose it had that feeling since it no longer exists -- and as far as I know, the space is currently vacant. You enter on the right side of the storefront, seen here facing the parking lot, and walk across in front of the registers to the left side where produce and meat line the wall. Deli is on the back wall, with frozen pa...

Henning's Supermarket Owner: Bob Henning Opened:  2003 in existing location; 1889 previously Cooperative:  none (UNFI supplied) Location:  290 Main St, Harleysville, PA Photographed:  January 6, 2020 Welcome to Henning's Supermarket, a 60,000 square foot independent supermarket here in the town of Harleysville, PA, the largest supermarket around and a really spectacular store. We're going to begin this tour from above, so that we can get a good idea of the layout. This store has existed in one form or another since the late 1800s, but most recently moved from the other end of the strip mall to the existing building in 2003 in what was previously a Jamesway. At some point, Henning's was Thriftway-affiliated, but I'm not sure when they split off. Henning's is a rather upscale store, as we'll see, but it's a very complete supermarket. It also feels much larger than its 60,000 square feet, not to mention it's much larger than nearly all of the other ind...