Birney Plaza

 

        At first glance, the Birney Plaza would appear to be a normal shopping center. However, it actually is an enclosed strip center- technically making this another mall for the Wyoming Valley. The center was completely overhauled in recent years after Kmart closed its doors. The remodeling likely helped to attract tenants for the vacant Kmart as the space would be subdivided between Shop-Rite and Ace Hardware. 

Former Kmart #9146

 NOTE: This post comes from outside the blog's coverage area.

    Starting off our Massachusetts Kmart visits, we tour the westernmost one in Great Barrington. Much like the Berwick, PA store, this location was also a smaller store in a former Grants. As such a small size, no specialty departments were present. I managed to visit this location during its liquidation sale. This location is now subdivided between a Tractor Supply and a Marshalls.

Shinglehouse's DG Market

                                                                 

    As promised last month, we will now tour the newly built Dollar General Market in Shinglehouse. Being a proper supermarket, DG Market does indeed offer meats, produce and a wider variety of food products. They even expanded their HBA offerings to include cosmetics. From my observations, it appears that every department (except maybe homegoods) appears to of have their offerings expanded. 

Seeing a cart corral at a Dollar General is something I didn't expect.

The store opened without any exterior signage up, but did receive it later.

Produce offerings were a little barebones at first, but I assume that to be caused by just opening up.

Self Checkout

A look at the now former DG. They pretty much left everything behind.