95-year-old beloved supermarket chain closes longtime stores

An iconic supermarket concatenation is closing stores successful cardinal markets, eliminating market store choices for section residents arsenic companies adjacent underperforming locations.

Grocery chains person faced economical challenges specified arsenic rising labour and merchandise costs driven by inflation, fierce contention from discount big-box retailers similar Costco, Walmart, and Target, and expanding market e-commerce services that instrumentality concern distant from brick-and-mortar supermarkets.

The effect of these section supermarket closings has been the public's higher reliance connected determination big-box stores and the nonaccomplishment of section grocer conveniences.

Giant Eagle closes store locations successful Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio.bgwalker / Getty Images

Giant Eagle closes Lancaster store

95-year-old supermarket concatenation Giant Eagle Food & Drug said it volition adjacent its Lancaster, Ohio, location, which opened implicit 15 years ago, sometime this summer, months aft closing its determination connected East Broad Street successful Columbus, Ohio, successful April.

Lancaster is located astir 31 miles from Columbus.

The institution did not acceptable a closing day for its Lancaster store astatine 1394 Ety Shops Way but said it expects it to adjacent sometime successful the summertime of 2026. It besides said it would shutter its pharmacy connected June 17, according to the Lancaster Eagle Gazette.

Customer prescriptions transferred

Giant Eagle's Lancaster store customers' prescriptions were transferred to the Kroger pharmacy astatine 1621 N. Memorial Drive successful Lancaster.

The market institution said the store's 62 employees whitethorn person the accidental to enactment astatine adjacent Giant Eagle stores, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

Closing hard and indispensable

"This was a difficult, but indispensable concern determination made aft cautious reappraisal of store operations," said Dan Donovan, Giant Eagle elder manager of nationalist relations, said.

"We are grateful for our squad members and neighbors who person supported the store implicit the years, and we look guardant to continuing to service customers astatine our adjacent Central Ohio locations," Donovan said.

Columbus Giant Eagle shuttered

Giant Eagle besides closed its supermarket and pharmacy astatine 6867 Broad Street successful the Columbus Blacklick country connected April 11. The supermarket concatenation operated the determination for 20 years and employed 95 workers, according to the Dispatch.

The supermarket concatenation subsequently closed its 1701 Lincoln Highway determination successful North Versailles, Pa., successful Allegheny County connected May 31, according to WTAE-TV successful Pittsburgh.

Giant Eagle stores closing:

• Giant Eagle, 1394 Ety Shops Way, Lancaster, Ohio. Source: Lancaster Eagle Gazette.

• Giant Eagle, 6867 Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio. Source: Columbus Dispatch.

• Giant Eagle, 1701 Lincoln Highway, North Versailles, Pa. Source: WTAE-TV.