{"id":131627,"date":"2026-03-06T21:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131627\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:04:10","slug":"grocery-outlet-to-close-several-stores-in-pennsylvania-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131627\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Outlet to close several stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grocery Bargain Outlet Market is closing two stores in Philadelphia as part of a plan to shutter three dozen underperforming locations nationwide, the discount retailer said. <\/p>\n

The chain’s South Philly<\/a> store at 2017 W. Oregon Ave. and its Northeast Philly store at 2524 Welsh Road are both on the company’s list of closures. <\/p>\n

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Other closures in the region include a store in Kennett Square, Chester County<\/a>, and South Jersey stores in Delran, Sicklerville, Gibbstown, Mays Landing and Rio Grande.<\/p>\n

Grocery Outlet is taking cost-cutting measures after expanding too quickly and having a slow fourth quarter, CEO Jason Potter said. He cited last year’s federal government shutdown, which delayed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for many Grocery Outlet customers.<\/p>\n

“Store sales for the quarter were adversely impacted by the delayed disbursement of benefits,” Potter said. <\/p>\n

The California-based chain entered the year with 570 stores in 16 states, including 42 that opened in 2025. Most of the stores that will close are in East Coast states.<\/p>\n

“We are not fully exiting any state, and we believe we have a meaningful opportunity to grow in the east over the long term,” Potter said during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Grocery Outlet still has locations in University City<\/a> (4301 Chestnut St.), Sharswood (2077 Ridge Ave.) and Norris Square (1801 American St.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grocery Bargain Outlet Market is closing two stores in Philadelphia as part of a plan to shutter three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,1557,4524,47289,28,30,29,69,8091],"class_list":["post-131627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-business","tag-chester-county","tag-closures","tag-grocery-stores","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-south-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}