22 Facts About Weis Markets

Weis Markets, Inc is a Mid-Atlantic food retailer headquartered in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.

Weis Markets was founded as Weis Pure Foods in 1912 in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, by two brothers, Harry and Sigmund Weis.

Harrisburg would remain an important market for Weis Markets, helping to anchor the central Pennsylvania region that Weis Markets would dominate for decades.

Weis Markets brothers expanded their chain rapidly, opening dozens of small, in-town grocery stores throughout central Pennsylvania.

Weis Markets closed several corner grocery stores in Harrisburg in 1938, replacing them with their first self-service, consolidated supermarket.

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Weis Markets expanded to Maryland in July 1967, opening its first non-Pennsylvania store in Hagerstown, followed by a store in Frederick in August Its first store in the Wilkes-Barre area opened in 1967.

In November 1967, the company purchased the five-store Albany Public Weis Markets chain based in Albany, New York, in an all-cash transaction.

Weis Markets expanded to western Pennsylvania, opening stores as far west as Altoona, Everett, and Philipsburg, and expanded throughout northeastern Pennsylvania.

Weis Markets purchased two regional chains in the Poconos and Lehigh Valley region: Mr Z's, a 14-store chain of IGA supermarkets, in 1992, and King's, a six-store chain based in Hamburg, in 1994.

The westernmost extent of Weis Markets's expansion is along old route 220 with the two stores in Altoona, one on 7th street and one in Park Hills.

Weis Markets expanded into northern New Jersey, beginning with a store opened in Newton in 1992.

In 2009, Weis expanded into the Southern Tier of New York with the acquisition of the 11-store Giant Markets chain.

Weis Markets closed one former Giant Market in Binghamton in 2012, along with two others in 2014.

Eastern expansion continued in 2012 as Weis Markets acquired three former Genuardi's stores from Safeway, in the Philadelphia suburbs of Conshohocken, Doylestown and Norristown, on June 16.

Weis Markets entered central New Jersey with the purchase of a former Pathmark store in Hillsborough in August 2013.

In November 2013, Weis Markets opened its closest store to Philadelphia after acquiring a former Pathmark store in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania.

In May 2016, Weis Markets announced the purchase of five stores from Mars in Baltimore County, Maryland, after that chain announced it was closing all its stores.

Weis Markets completed the acquisition and conversion of the 44 stores in early November 2016.

In late September 2019, Weis Markets acquired two Thomas' Food Market stores, one in Dallas, Pennsylvania and another in Shavertown, Pennsylvania, reopening the Dallas location under the Weis Markets banner and closing the Shavertown location.

At the time of the picketing, the Weis store was located in Logan Valley Mall, the Park Hills Plaza was not built until the mid-1970s, at which time Weis moved across U S Route 220 to its current location.

Additionally, Weis Markets owned a majority-stake in, and operated, a chain of pet supply warehouse stores called SuperPetz.

Weis Markets sells a variety of house brands under the following private brand labels:.