Giant Food | Millsboro, DE

24939 John J. Williams Highway

Welcome to the Millsboro Giant Food!

One more week in the First State, and one more supermarket on John J. Williams Highway in Millsboro! Last August, we saw the Harris Teeter down the road, and last week, we saw the Weis across the street. Today, we're taking a tour of the Giant Food of Millsboro. It opened in 2008 as the latest of five Giant Food stores in Delaware, and also likely the only one to not originally open as Super G. As you can see, it has the standard Ahold design from the 2000s that was also used by Stop & Shop stores. Let's head inside and take cover from the rain once again!

Quite a plain (and large) entrance area. 👋🚪🛒

After walking through the entrance doors, we find the floral department to our right and the bakery to our left. This store has the same decor that we saw at the Wilmington Giant Food in north Delaware last October.

Completing the grand aisle are the fresh kitchen, deli, produce, and seafood and meat. I'll repeat my statement from October: "Personally, while I don't love how the store is devoid of almost any color, I do like the signage." It would be nice if there were some pops of color instead of all gray and white.

The meat selection takes up most of the back wall. Throughout the store, I saw several of those displays. Seeing the Giant Food logo got me wondering if there are any plans to replace it. Stop & Shop, which launched their own fruit bowl logo at the same time, replaced it back in 2018 with a modern version of their classic traffic light logo. It would be interesting to see a modern take on Giant Food's classic G logo.

A look at aisle 8, home to various cooking needs. Even the aisle markers are missing color. Although I've always thought "kitchen gadgets" was a funny and whimsical phrase to put on an aisle marker.

Dairy and frozen are on the right side of the store. Here we get a look at the backlit photos, which I do really like.

The pharmacy department is in the front right corner. This is the first time we've seen a pharmacy in Millsboro, as neither Weis nor Harris Teeter have one. Giant Pharmacy isn't the only option, though, as there's a Rite Aid across the street and a Walgreens in the same shopping center as Harris Teeter.

Another interesting thing about this store is that it has a Starbucks, which is the first thing shoppers see walking in through the other entrance.

Checkouts and customer service are on the front end of the store.

Before we go, here's a look at the store map posted in the main vestibule. I would think it's from when the store first opened, as it's missing the pharmacy (instead having the floral department there) and has a "bank area" along the front wall, which I believe just contained random merchandise when I was there.

Other Images of Interest

Street View Images

2024

How the store looked just a few months ago. No different at all.

2008

The store and the trees are both babies here. This was probably one of the last stores to open with the previous Giant Food logo.

Nearby competition

0.5 miles away: Weis of Millsboro

Last week's store was the Weis across the street. It opened in 2016 in a former Food Lion, which was the first grocery store in this area of Millsboro, opening in 1994.

0.7 miles away: Harris Teeter of Millsboro

And last year, we took a tour of the town's Harris Teeter, one of only two in Delaware (and, if the Albertsons-Kroger merger manages to go through, the only one), which, like the Giant Food, opened in 2008.

Thanks for joining me on this tour! This was a nice store, and my only gripe about it was the lack of color in its decor, which probably isn't worth noting for the average shopper. Anyway, thanks for reading, and I'll see you next week! The little things are The Retail Connection.