The Back Mountain is losing one of its two Weis grocery stores in the new year.

Weis Markets located in the Country Club Shopping Center on state Route 309 will close in January due to “continuing underperformance,” a company spokesperson said.

“As part of this process, we plan to transfer the store’s 43 associates to other Weis stores in the area including our nearby store on Memorial Highway in Dallas,” Dennis Curtin, the company’s Director of Public Relations, said. “We are strongly committed to the Dallas-Back Mountain area where we recently finished the renovation of our Memorial Highway store where we added new décor, expanded our produce, bakery, and pharmacy departments, added more food service options and increased the natural and organic variety.”

Weis opened the store in the Country Club Shopping Center after purchasing two Thomas Food Market stores in the Back Mountain in 2019.

Weis rebranded the Thomas location in the Country Club Shopping Center and did not reopen a Food Basics store in Shavertown that was operated by Thomas’.

In February, the Sunbury-based grocery recently purchased the Country Club Shopping Center from Finlay Country Club SC LLC for $6,396,000, according to property records.

Originally Published: December 13, 2024 at 5:01 PM EST