This is a list of all chain grocery locations my research has uncovered in Greater Wilkes-Barre between 1925 and 2020, compiled from city directories, telephone books, and other sources. There may be some omissions due to incomplete or missing data, etc. and I welcome suggestions and corrections. Please read about my methodology for more information about what I do and do not include.

View and download a copy of this location spreadsheet via Google Sheets.

Notes:

• Several suburbs further from the core are not included (Pittston, Mountain Top, etc.) because they are not consistently represented in my data sources over the period.
• There may be issues with some of the data after 1995 or so. I have tried to augment the gaps with newspapers and other sources, but may not have uncovered everything.
• More notes to be added later.

Store tags:

• A&P
• American Stores/Acme
• Food Fair
• Gerrity’s
• Giant Markets
• Grand Union
• Insalaco’s
• Mullison’s Economy Stores
• Price Chopper
• Sunshine/Bargains Galore
• Wegmans
• Weis/Scot’s LoCost/Mr Z’s/The Store