539 Oak Avenue
Welcome to the Aldan GIANT!
Welcome back to The Retail Connection! In this edition, we'll be taking a tour of the GIANT (or, as the signage reads, GIAT) in Aldan. This location opened in 1995 as the anchor to a small shopping center. The exterior uses a modified version of GIANT's 90's glass façade, while the interior has received a much more recent remodel. Let's step inside and take a good look around!
As we'll see throughout the tour, this store has the standard GIANT layout. We're starting on the far right, with produce and the GIANT Direct department.
Next up is the service delicatessen. Those tiles on the back wall are left over from the previous "Fun House" décor.
The beer and wine eatery is kind of awkwardly placed in an aisle. Soda and other non-alcoholic drinks are on the other end of this aisle.
The exact middle aisle is double-wide and contains paper products and other general merchandise.
Meats and seafood take up the rest of the back wall. Here we see those tiles again. I don't really mind them, because they at least add some color to this mostly gray interior.
Prepackaged meats are just past the meat counter.
Dairy starts in the back left corner and wraps around to the left wall. The store tops out at 22 aisles.
Bakery is in the front left. This is pretty common for GIANT, but I've never seen another store that sets the bakery completely apart from the deli and seafood.
Here's a look down the aisles from the bakery. Aisles 17, 18, and 19 are health and beauty aids.
The GIANT Pharmacy is next door to the bakery. The last GIANT we saw had its pharmacy removed.
This store has a Citizens Bank branch as well. Some GIANT stores have other banks inside, such as Wells Fargo or PNC Bank, though Citizens is most common.
Next to that are customer services and a lot of Mother's Day balloons.
The main "thank you for shopping" sign is above the exit doors. There's another sign above the checkout lanes, which I didn't photograph, that says something like "your neighborhood GIANT since 1995".
Other Images of Interest
Street View Images
2022
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The "N" and "FOOD" mysteriously disappeared sometime between October and April. The exterior signage will probably be replaced soon.
2012
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The exterior looks the same as of June 2012 (and it probably looked the same in 1995, too), but this store was still rocking Fun House inside at the time.
Nearby competition
0.5 miles away: Price Rite of Secane
Price Rite is the discount store division of Wakefern Food Corporation, which also owns ShopRite. This is the only Price Rite store in the Philadelphia area, since ShopRite is pretty widespread and Wakefern doesn't want to cannibalize their sales. We'll be taking a tour of this store on Tuesday, so stay tuned for that.
Thanks for checking out The Retail Connection once again! Happy early Mother's Day to all the mothers out there, and happy Saturday to everyone else. The Retail Connection: For today's table.
Great tour! But oh boy, that decor looks terrible here, at least in the pictures. In some of the newer and nicer stores, this decor package actually looks pretty solid but this looks just depressing. The salad bar area is embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I can't say I love or even like this implementation of the decor. I don't mind the service departments, but the other areas like meat and dairy aren't attractive and the salad bar is an abomination. I hope the next remodel is more thorough, considering the exterior could use an update, too. Thanks for commenting!
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