Monday, September 19, 2016

A Weis Choice of Neon

While planning out many of my retail-oriented trips, I stumbled upon an exterior street view image of Weis still rocking the old yellow signage.1 I decided I would stop in and see if the interior decor was as special as finding the rare exterior signage. It indeed was special as it is a neon-based package.

A neon pharmacy greets you upon entering. The deli is to the left.
Bakery is the first thing along the left side of the store.
Deli closeup.
Produce, along with cheese and a salad bar, make up the rest of the left side of the store.
The Made to order and Pizza sits on the right side of  cheese immediately after the deli area.
Notice that produce does not have neon letters. This becomes more common moving forward.
Floral sits a little corner along the left wall after the bakery area.
A closer look at the produce signage.
Rounding the corner after the made to order area is seafood.
Weis managed to fit 2 random tables near produce in.
Back of the store.

Frozen foods are along the right side of the store running in aisles.
Bread sits at the front of store.
Dairy makes shares an aisle with frozen foods on the right side of the store. You can also see an example of the aisle signage i this picture as well as the one below.


Checkout lanes, with customer services in the background. I did not get a picture of customer services for some reason.
This store is kind of all on its own with the next closest stores being Wellsboro, PA or the many Weis stores 2 in the Binghamton area to the east. That could explain why the decor package is neon. Being somewhat secluded from the rest of the chain, it is hard to say if the store will continue to use this or remodel it like most other Weis locations have done.

Footnotes:
1. Most stores have been updated/remodeled to just saying Weis on them nowadays.
2. Previously all Giant supermarket stores. They were sold to Weis.

4 comments:

  1. Very cool! Neat to see a "vintage" treasure still hanging around

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  2. I worked at this Weis from 1994 until 2005. This store opened in March 1984 and, based on the photos, hasn't been updated since the major remodel and expansion during the winter of 1996-97 (The checkout lights appear to have been updated in the last few years, but that's about it). The Elmira location was part of a plan to expand into the southern Finger Lakes with at least two additional stores planned (Montour Falls and Ithaca, I believe), but never got built. The Wellsboro store opened in 1996. The next closest stores at the time were in Williamsport.

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    1. I thought it seemed a little strange for Weis to have this lone store in New York. (Not counting the Binghamton area stores as those were all sold to Weis from Giant.) An expansion plan like that would justify this location being here.

      It almost seems like Weis forgets about this store, but this store will likely see an increase of sales now that the nearby Tops has closed.

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