Weis | Millsboro, DE

24832 John J. Williams Highway

Welcome to the Millsboro Weis!

While we aren't quite back to Pennsylvania yet, we're definitely much further north than we were in Florida! We'll be spending the next two weeks in Millsboro, a medium-sized town located in southern Delaware between Rehoboth Beach and Ocean City. Last year, we saw the Harris Teeter in town, and this year we'll be taking a look at the other two supermarkets in this part of town, Weis and Giant Food. When the Nanticoke Crossing shopping center first opened back in 1994, its main anchor was Food Lion. In 2016, following the Ahold-Delhaize merger, the store and 37 others in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia were sold to Weis Markets of Pennsylvania. Weis reopened the store on October 14, 2016, along with other ex-Food Lions in Delaware in Millville, Lewes, and Rehoboth Beach (now closed). Let's take a look inside one of the few Weis stores in Delaware!

This store doesn't have much of a grand aisle, but the deli and bakery are located diagonally down the right wall, with the produce department in the back corner. This store has Weis's current decor package, which we also saw in East Norriton and Conshohocken. I'm not a huge fan of it, especially in a smaller store with low ceilings like this one.

The packaged meat department and the meat and seafood counter are on the back wall. As you can see by now, nothing in this decor matches literally anything else.

It's been a while since we've seen an aisle 12! In this store, it's home to paper products.

The last few aisles contain dairy items and frozen foods. And umbrellas, since we're not far from the beach.

This corner of the store next to the customer service counter has an assortment of random sale items. I'm not too familiar with Food Lion, but I would imagine this would be where the pharmacy would go in an average store with this layout. I know this store definitely never had one, though, as there was an Edgehill Pharmacy next door upon opening (acquired by Rite Aid in 1999, then moved across the street in 2014).

I thought this display of Old Bay merchandise was interesting. This store is only about 13 miles from the Maryland border.

And, finally, the checkout lanes. The "thank you for shopping at Weis" sign is from the previous Weis decor package, which this store never had. It might've been added when the store first opened as Weis, if it opened with Food Lion decor in the rest of the store.

Other Images of Interest

Street View Images

2024

Not much of a different vibe here, other than much nicer weather. I visited next week's store on a different day, and the weather wasn't much better at all.

2008

This store seemed to have had a weirdly bare-bones version of the Food Lion logo, without the iconic lion. As you can see, Weis didn't make any changes to the exterior other than putting their logo up.

Nearby competition

0.5 miles away: Giant Food of Millsboro

Next week, we'll be taking a look at the last of the three supermarkets in this part of Millsboro, the Giant Food. It opened in 2008 and has Giant Food's current decor inside (which we've seen before, in Wilmington).

1 mile away: Harris Teeter of Millsboro

Almost exactly a year ago today, we toured the Harris Teeter a mile down the road. This store also opened in 2008, giving Food Lion two competitors in one year after years of standing alone. I chose to tour this store last year over the Weis or Giant Food due to the possibility of it being sold in the Albertsons-Kroger merger, but the list of stores has since come out, and this one will definitely be spared (the other DE Harris Teeter, Selbyville, is on the list, however).

Thanks for coming along with me on this Weis tour! This store was definitely quite different than the other two Weis locations we've seen, both acquired Genuardi's stores. It was a nice store, although it did feel dated inside despite the modern decor. By the way, if you've been wondering what a Weis-built store looks like, here's one of their newer models, as toured by The Market Report in 2022. A store of this model will be opening in Delaware in Middletown next year, their first purpose-built store in the state. Anyway, I'll see you next week across the street! Eat better, spend less, that's The Retail Connection!