Weis Markets — Local services in Sunbury

I live two blocks from this store, which I believe is the very first Weis Market.

It is smaller than most supermarkets, and much more the size of what supermarkets were back in the day.

I remember as a kid in Connecticut, my mom shopped in an A&P that was about the same size.

Back in the mid-1900s up to the 70's, stores like A&P gave out trading stamps to shoppers as a kind of reward for buying groceries. For every dollar you spent, you'd get a few stamps, which you collected in special booklets. Once you filled enough pages, you could trade them in for things like toasters, dishes, or toys from a catalog or a redemption center. It was like a slow-motion points system, long before digital rewards apps—people really looked forward to saving up enough stamps for something special.

Weis does have digital awards that can go towards a discount at their gas pump and other rewards.

This small Weis on Market Street is stuffed with all the essentials and unexpected goodies like Fever tree tonic.l and buttermilk, which can sometimes be hard to find.

If you eat meat, check out the specials. On a recent visit they offered pork roast-& buy one, get TWO free!

I needed ham hock once for a split pea soup 🍲 I desperately needed. There were none out, but the butcher, a very nice lady, was putting out meats. I asked if she had any ham hocks, and she did. 5 minutes later she came out with a dozen of them I could choose from.

They have a decent selection of ice cream in the freezer section. They have the fancy expensive ones, but the Weis brand is excellent. They have the best vanilla ice cream around and always a good press. They now have some new fancy flavours.

The store also provides an essential service for the many people who live in the nearby high-rise. These are folks with disabilities, many in electric wheelchairs...

My wife and I needed a few things for a picnic we were going to, we stopped into what a lot of people call the lower Weis in Sunbury. This is a very small Weis compared to what we are used to but it definitely had everything we needed they just don't stock as much of it and at check out we noticed that the prices were actually a little lower than even the Weis is in the same town but on another street. It's just a really nice quaint grocery store which I believe is actually the original Weis Markets of Sunbury where it all started. This location has a very small parking lot so it is not as busy as the other locations and it appears to be century located in town so it is easily accessible to those who live around the...

I like going to Weis (in general, doesn't have to be the Market St location). I was disappointed this evening (Friday) when I called their phone number and chose the selection to hear store hours only to find that the automated system was wrong. I did update some of the hours on Google, so hopefully that change will go live as they are incorrect as well. I find that pricing at Weis tends to be cheaper than Giant overall. I enjoy their seasonal ice cream flavors and do prefer their ice cream over Turkey Hill. Smaller store than others as this is the first of its kind, but still a...