GIANT | Broomall, PA

2180 West Chester Pike

Welcome to the Broomall GIANT!

Happy Friday the 13th! You might be having some scary flashbacks to the Westtown GIANT, a store with the same exterior as the Broomall location and a fascinatingly ugly interior. But this store isn't that bad! It opened on December 6, 2019 in a new-construction shopping center, replacing the chain's original Broomall store which opened in 2001 in a former Bradlees. That store is now an Amazon Fresh. Without further adieu, let's head inside.

Thanks for having me.

The fresh bar and the garden are on the left side of the grand aisle. This store has the same decor that it opened with back in 2019; we last saw it in the Springfield store in May 2023.

The kitchen takes up a whole island on the right side of the grand aisle. Beer and wine is behind this area, and we'll see that in a moment.

The deli and the bakery are in the back of the grand aisle as we transition to the main part of the store.

Beer and wine in the first two aisles. There's a small seating area just to the right of where I took this picture.

A look at aisle 9, with various baking supplies.

The land and sea counter, packaged meats, and the small plant based selection are all on the back wall.

Milk/dairy and frozen are in the last few aisles of the store. This GIANT tops out at 20 aisles, which seems pretty large to me for a store built in the last five years, especially considering the sizable grand aisle. The store doesn't feel as big as it really is.

The store's Citizens Bank branch (with a lot of GIANT Direct orders ready to go in front of it) and the pharmacy are on the front end of this side. In the two-towers model that GIANT used for years (Aston being one of many, many, many examples), the secondary entrance would be in this area, but newer stores only have one entrance.

We find greeting cards and checkouts running down the front end. Thank you for shopping at your Broomall GIANT.

Other Images of Interest

Street View Images

2022

Google hasn't been through most of this relatively new shopping center yet, so the best perspective we get of this store is from the Royal Farms parking lot across the street.

Nearby competition

1.8 miles away: Acme of Broomall

We saw this store last week. This store first opened as a Food Fair in 1957, later become a ShopRite in 1979 and then the Acme that it is today in 1994. This store is probably this GIANT's biggest competitor, though they're far enough apart and GIANT seems more popular (as is usually the case).

2.2 miles away: Amazon Fresh of Broomall

GIANT knows this store quite well - they operated in it for almost 20 years! It had originally been a Two Guys department store, and eventually became a Bradlees before closing in 2001 with the chain. GIANT opened a brand new store in most of the building later that year, and then moved to the store we just toured in 2019. Amazon Fresh opened their second Philly-area store here in September of 2022. Click here to see this store as it was in March of 2023.

Thank you for joining me on this tour! This store was quite nice, and I would definitely do shopping here if I was in the area (although I'm not in Broomall very often). I quite like the decor, too; GIANT's current decor is better, but I like the backlit signage in this one. It was definitely a step up from their previous decor, which we saw in Westtown (linked in the introduction). I'll see you next time! The Retail Connection: For today's table.