Abandoned Kroger - Weirton, WV

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Abandoned Kroger - Weirton, WV. Enjoy a look at this vintage little Kroger grocery store. It served the downtown area of Weirton for 62 years before corporate decided to shut it down. They blame lagging sales for the reason for shutting down. I disagree with Kroger over the fact every time I passed this store it was full of shoppers. I bet they closed it due to the larger location just a few miles away. However for those who don't drive or don't have a car, the elderly, etc., this was convenient being right in town and easy to get to. Upon walking around the building, I get joined by a little cat that wanted to hang out with me. Obviously a stray but a fun little way to explore with the cat hanging out. Enjoy!
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@SummerHaze29 3 месяца назад

It’s my hometown! And also, it’s now a Dollar Tree.

@TomA-sn7hj Год назад

My grandfather was a meat cutter in that store for 30 years until he retired in the 1967 thanks for the video

@alexandramarquette Год назад

I live in Weirton and have rescued several cats that were dumped or born down there. Just today I found your video while looking for the number on the For Lease sign which was taken down, as the property owner has threatened to have the nice lady who feeds them arrested! She has been feeding those cats for 12 years and is terrified! Now they have no way to get food, and the car place next door called Fergusons destroyed all of those shelters... some that I made and donated myself. It is so terrible! At least when the workers were there, they looked out for the cats.

@doctorcrummy Год назад

I grew up with that store since I was born. I loved to visit every time I visited town.

@niXie1989 Год назад

Wish I knew you guys were in town!! So excited you finally posted a video on this Kroger! You definitely caught the feel of the city and how much we depended on that Kroger, especially my dad who lives in those highrises and is disabled. Someone we know goes around and feeds all the strays in weirton, it's terrible. Anyway nice to see you here!!

@Elcomanchero333 Год назад

I'm from weirton , thanx for stopping in town. Biscuits and gravy at tudors is the 👌.

@nicolemacpherson3908 Год назад

Oh yeah it definitely looks like one of the smaller, older stores. The little kitty says, I'll just hang out here and clean my paws! #KrogerKat!

@robertmailhos8159 Год назад

Korger like to be owners of their own building instead of them being apart of a shopping center

@elizabethorsillo7187 Год назад

Many moons ago, when Kroger was still in western Pennsylvania, there was a Kroger in my town that was basically the same size as this one here that you filmed!

@thepaleitalian2726 Год назад

It was a very nice store and I had friends to worked there. I have lived in Weirton most of my life. It was great for the folks downtown. Sad to see parts of the town I grew up in disappearing.

@Optopolis Год назад

Looks super dated and definitely TINY! WOW!

@audreylonsinger2678 Год назад

So incredibly sad to see. Too many small and/or mom pop grocers are gone forever. You are right Wallie. The elderly, disabled, indigent have depended so much on these places😢

@rmx77 Год назад

in my case where i live sure there are people that take a bus but there are a few grocery stores but they are the more expensive ones. the discount grocery stores you have to take 2 buses to get there and then having to drag stuff home is a pain.

@lindamikel7913 Год назад

Thanks for Always Sharing Video Wallie and Kayla. Hope You Enjoyed it and Thank You for Watching!!!

@rebeccagranger5727 Год назад

I miss working there. I was there for 8 1/2 years as the lead dairy clerk. Me and my co-workers. We were p.o. when they told us that we were closing. They told us not to tell anyone before they told the public. Our regulars, who knows us very well, notice very well and they saw our faces and ask us what was wrong and we told them what was just told to us before it broke out to wtov9 and Weirton newspaper.

@robinmonroe1276 Год назад

To many grocery stores are closing even in South west Missouri! I agree I hope a grocery store would take it over!

@charlesobradovich5819 5 месяцев назад

What town?

@Free_Samples Год назад

Awe the poor kitty 😢

@dejanvranjes4170 Год назад

I remember the K-mart and Kroger when I was in Wierton back in 2012. Love your videos ! Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪 😀

@criagflowers2357 Год назад

I lived in Weirton all my life till recently I moved out near Beaver Falls PA. I lived on Orchard street for about 15 years and remembering how busy that store was when I was little. I'm 54 now and to see how downtown is turning out the way it looks the way it is now, it hits you hard. I have many memories of downtown being a kid and all. The mill is totally gone and that's what really hit me only because my father and his brothers and sisters worked there for years. Downtown will never be the same. It's gone forever. And I'll never see it but would like to go through town again in about 50 years from now. That's if it would be a downtown.

@jojohnson6234 Год назад

I worked at this store from 2007-2010 everyone I worked with was nice it was convenient for the older people that can't drive we never had a lag time it was always busy loved the customers to

@ronaldcampbell4191 Год назад

Kroger has left a trail of ruin in Steub/Weirton. They closed up the smaller stores and moved to their "mega" complexes in strip malls.

@mountainstatearmory9867 Год назад

So I live in Weirton WV. The REAL reason the “downtown Kroger’s” was abandoned was that the other Kroger store on the hill was losing money. So by closing this one it forces everyone to use the other store.

@WallieB26 Год назад

That's just a crappy thing to do. Everyone who depended on that downtown store now has to go through all that trouble to go to the one up the hill. Corporate greed right there.

@tlt61 11 месяцев назад

I don't believe that the Kroger on the hill was losing money, if it was, it was due to the fact it was near competition (Walmart & Shop-n-Save). Downtown Kroger had no competition....but it did suffer from theft. I think the combination of theft and it being too small (running out of certain items) is why it closed down.

@peterjszerszen Год назад

That "I wonder if they have cats back here... oh look, there's a cat!" and the cat footage is up to par with the famous "Look at the front, where it says Ames real big". It should go in your intro. It has the same shaky fast zoom in and everything, I love it.

@janetvos6956 Год назад

I shop/deliver groceries through Instacart here in Weirton. I remember doing a few orders here and you couldn’t fit two carts side by side in the aisles. Always super friendly and bound to know someone! Dry goods were always really well stocked, frozen was hit/miss because of the space available.

@shesothorny9892 Год назад

Hello from Weirton WV! 😀

@michaelblair5767 Год назад

A lot of grocery stores do not operate stores in downtown areas and it does make for food desserts

@jeanettedegarmo9722 Год назад

The people need store there hopefully it will happen soon

@gradymcclintock3766 Год назад

That ramp is probably there basement

@lisazimmerman5882 Год назад

I love wallies videos everytime he makes a new one I click it immediately his videos are so interesting

@peterjszerszen Год назад

That's surprising it lasted so long. A lot of the '70s/'80s "Greenhouse" Krogers were built to replace smaller, older stores by the hundreds (I used to work in an OLD 1940s Kroger that was renovated in 1978 to a newspaper office). Now the Greenhouse stores (where they still remain) are kind of the smaller, older stores of today (which I actually prefer). You only ever find them in rural towns with no competition though. Those Greenhouse Krogers were just the right size and layout.

@kotymccallister5150 Год назад

what's a "greenhouse Kroger"?

@lisasimmons5181 Год назад

Lagging sales my butt, every time I went in there it was busy. I truly miss that store

@BuffaloChicken Год назад

Those totes are insulated shelters fir a feral colony of Cats ant the have a care taker. I wonder how long the cat in your video has been there,because I don't see an ear tip(not all clinics ear tip)that would tell a rescuer that the Cat had been TNVR'd. Good luck Kitty🧡

@randalgaines6043 Год назад

Thanks for the video living in Oklahoma we don't have a Kroger and, I have always wanted to see the inside of one once again thanks for the video and have a great day🙂 '

@jennifergarrett6809 Год назад

You were talking about how close the 2 Kroger's are. In Mississippi there is an area with 6 Kroger's within 10 miles. But each one is hard to get to. It's a 20 minute drive between each. And all are open and operational. They most likely didn't want to remodel the old store.

@ronz101 Год назад

You made a very good point about foot traffic. People, no matter where they are, need access to food. I live in Baltimore, MD. Food deserts are here too.

@devinwhitlock5918 Год назад

Hello friend wallie in Roanoke VA there used to be a Kroger supermarket that was not much bigger than a small convenient store it closed up in 1993 and later torn down and a new cvs was built in it's place the Kroger was called kings supermarket man I really miss that store love you guys always like family and may God bless you and your families always hope to hear back from you guys soon thanks 🪰💩💩💕💕💕💕💕💕🪰🪰🪰🪰💩💩💩💩💩💩🎃🙏🎄🎒👠👡🌹🌷🥀🤯👢🥾🥿

@lauraleeblair9983 Год назад

I'm from Toronto Ohio. I live in Steubenville, Ohio. I shopped tht store for years. It's sad tht it's gone. They put in a Dollar General nxt door.

@peterjszerszen Год назад

That store is so old I bet that lower basement dock area was where they dumped the coal or ice.

@mikey7290 Год назад

This store is similar in design to the original A&P that opened in 1963 at the Northland Plaza in Watertown, NY. It was split down the middle after A&P moved to the other side of the Plaza in the 1980s. The original store was occupied by a video store in one half and Dollar General in the other. That was in the 90s. Don't know what is in there now.

@nickd.4512 Год назад

This brings back memories. My family used to shop that store when we lived in weirton backbin the 80s, before the steel mills massively downsized.

@Mrcruisefever1 Год назад

That would be good spot for family dollar store 😊

@waynemasters 5 месяцев назад

Wallie, last time we were here was summer of 2019 when we were on a cigarette run (much cheaper than PA) ... Been to this store many times. At their service desk, they still had a sign saying effective Jan 1, 1986 the legal drinking age is 21... lol, it was a walk back in time. I use to be an auditer for Ktogers... believe it or not, the smallest in the chain is in Nelsonville, OH just SE of Columbus... 965 Poplar St, Nelsonville, OH 45764 is the address. This store is less than half the size of this one and still does great business. Love your videos, hope to meet up when we get back home to Pgh.

@lllBAMlll Год назад

Hey, a local yokel... I dont know ya but cool seeing someone on here. ✌

@tanyacooper6252 9 дней назад

Yeah Kroger closed 3 stores where im at about the same time. Leaving alot of town without,they were here 50 years. What Kroger told you guys is exactly what they said here in Peoria IL to us .Youve came across my algorithm your little town . Oh it looks like a place that would be nice to move to.

@simpleman3507 Год назад

It's a sad fact that the changing retail business has been evolving for years. The online order and delivery of everything you need has changed all small business and just left us with supper stores.

@JackVegetables18 Год назад

I wonder if that kroger use to have the old big box sign in the parking lot

@fauxurfancy Год назад

Krogers always served the population downtown. Mainly the elderly and lower income families. It was sad for them.

@jaimienichols5649 Год назад

Awesome Wallie

@Mattrino101 8 месяцев назад

I used to deliver bread to this store between 2015 and 2020. It was always a slow store and the manager who was there for years was never interested in pushing extra sales (a lot of it has to do with the space issue). If I'm not mistaken, this was the only Kroger, either in the regional area or across the nation, where they paid rent for the building. The company didn't own it. So when the rent got jacked up, it wasn't worth it for them to stay. That's what I've heard anyway.

@kimshedlock5031 Год назад

Mr Pib soda .had for first time visiting family cousins Baton Rouge Louisiana .14 years old at the time .61 years now.

@daviddewitt8308 Год назад

You want to see a small Kroger's, go to McConnelsville, Ohio.

@joeykliniski3336 Год назад

That's insane good thing u Finley get to do a video good video to

@susangunn9100 Год назад

When I used to live Plymouth Indiana.I shopped at Krogers at one time.now I live in Illinois now.I shop at hyvee and Walmart

@jet34thehawk Год назад

Awesome video

@MochaCrochetsandCrafts Год назад

There's a Greenhouse Kroger about 20 miles south of there in Wheeling (Warwood actually). I was in the Weirton one several times and I think the Warwood one might be even smaller. There's also one in Wellsburg, too.

@bkidwill7423 Год назад

When I first moved to weirton I been in this Kroger several times. I remember it closing and thought how much it sucks if u live in down town and not by the big fancy one on three springs

@jackperry9369 Год назад

65yrs used by residents its rediculous as hell they closed it

@joebailey6404 Год назад

Wasnt sales. The landlord of the building didnt wanna fork out money for repairs

@candycruse3382 Год назад

I work for Kroger and they're closing up stores in low income areas and high theft areas

@agy234 Год назад

People are so mad. But if the “customers” just steal the merch are they really customers?

@alissawestling5384 Год назад

I loved having that kroger when I lived on Marland heights!

@mikaylafaithparteli9412 Год назад

I'm watching cuz one of my coworkers used to work at this store before they closed it 😐

@BitmappedWV Год назад

Kroger did the same thing In Clarksburg, WV around 2020. They built one large store to consolidate two smaller stores in town.

@exploring_unleashed Год назад

A lot of staff from this one probably went to the newer store. That could be another reason it closed.

@mikaylafaithparteli9412 Год назад

Yeap we got some at Steubenville including one of the mangers who just sadly transfered out to another store

@kewldude23xx Год назад

I live in Weirton and I got to go to that store a few times , The problem with that store was that because of its size they would run out of certain items too quickly and also they didn't have that much variety. It was convenient to get basic items . That's why I stopped going there because I would always think to myself;"I hope they have what I need"

@kimbailey-orlando3505 Год назад

Kroger leased that building and didn’t own it which is why it was never fixed up when all the other Krogers across the country were, They never said so but I think that was the real reason it closed. very sad for the people who live downtown and do not have a way to get up on the hill for their groceries bc the bus will only let you bring a few bags on it at a time and there has been colonies of cats living behind the for years and there are many people who feed them and catch them to get them fixed and then the release them so they are pretty well taken care of

@SupremeGang420 Год назад

I really missed Krogers being there when I lived on Hudson Ave I would always walk down to Krogers and buy something

@jssstephenson Год назад

I saw one a little of a 14 years ago I believe it was in either Schenectady or Queensbury New York when I was there that was smaller than that. And they said that all of them use to looking like that

@michaelcoffey7362 Год назад

WOW, amazing it was there 65 years .

@allenleavell2847 Год назад

Speaking of the Fujiyama, a couple more restaurants moved into that building since you filmed it. Unfortunately, neither of them lasted very long...

@joebailey6404 Год назад

This is my home town. So wild seeing a vid about this.. the direction ur facing in the video is facing Maryland Heights area up that hill. That was there main store to shop

@lorrainedefebbo9555 7 месяцев назад

My childhood Kroger

@robbie_stanton Год назад

Maybe the Kroger will be O’ Riley Auto Parts just like they did with the Kroger in downtown Clarksburg after the built a big Kroger on east point

@obaniehia Год назад

hope you went to tudors and got breakfast between the two stops on this road lol. Also the lagging sales is in comparison to the other location on three springs so the nixed the older one.

@ericbechler9903 Год назад

Nice wallie 😃

@agy234 Год назад

The one in McConnellsville is even smaller

@Alexs23743 Год назад

That Kroger actually had a pharmacy? 7:08: "THE CAT!" -Colin Mochrie

@xxtacowarriorxx6440 Год назад

If you can do a video on the old weirton dollar general that would be awesome. It was a really awkward store.

@trainman7215 Год назад

wow thats a small kroger!

@andrewbritton7923 Год назад

The Kroger in downtown Clarksburg, WV is about this size or smaller. We had 2 Krofer since the 70s. One was in a shopping plaza that moved in the 80s to a new shopping plaza. It was widened many times. Kroger took the old Kmart at the opposite end and doubled it's size and opened it in January 2021. They then closed the downtown location which was packed by the highrise people nearby yet sales were down. Now they have to go 10 miles to East Pointe Shopping center to the newer Kroger. The old Kroger at that plaza is a Hobby Lobby and the other plaza that had the original Kroger up there (Gabes Plaza) is a Big Lots

@indieauthorjasonblayne7511 Год назад

Greetings from Huntington.

@stephaniejones1189 Год назад

I walked there for years when I didn't have a car as did many others. I miss it so, I'd stop on the way to work & ect. The store was leased & the owner wasn't doing repairs was the original reason it supposedly closed. I remember going with my grandparent's, good times.

@crackerjack606 Год назад

hey wallie! you should come to paintsville kentucky! we have a couple abandoned places. we have an abandoned movie theater, mexican place, big sandy superstore, kmart that's being converted to another store, a+ rentals, abandoned car wash, aaron's, gordmans / peebles

@andypritchard9644 Год назад

I can believe it. Eastern Kentucky is hurting. He ought to go out there sometime.

@crackerjack606 Год назад

@@andypritchard9644 absolutely :( it's hurting fr. but the good thing about our town is we have a tj maxx / marshall's coming & some other places moving or coming in, maybe it's gonna turn around for us. wallie needs to go to pikeville ky. there's a lot of abandoned places there too.

@davidsquires154 Год назад

There is a very small Kroger located on Mack near Vernier Road (8 Mile Road)in Grosse Pointe Woods ,a suburb of Detroit,Michigan. This small Kroger was an old Farmer Jack Supermarket before they went out of business. The small Kroger has a very small parking lot and a Church ⛪ next to the parking lot. And,every Sunday Kroger doesn't open until 11:00am,because The Church and Kroger share the same parking lot.

@uunderskore Год назад

I was looking at that store on google maps and yeah it is small, similar to the size of the north Somerset Kentucky store which is tiny, atleast by 2008 Kroger standards

@PhantomMaul Год назад

Dollar general swooped it to take the people who needed that Kroger similar to how they took over for the grocers who left nearby Toronto

@larainetortora5050 Год назад

They also closed a small one in my town in North Texas. I used to work for kroger for 26 years and yes they kept on making more and more bigger stores. And all the small ones closed down kinda sad

@Montera15 Год назад

Price Chopper in Cohoes NY and Lake George NY seem a lot smaller than this kroger

@rjmcallister1888 Год назад

Until the late 70's, most grocery stores were no more than 25,000-30,000 square feet. Then, superstores became the rule. In Warrenton, MO, Kroger closed a late 50's-early 60's store about two years back when local competitor Schnucks opened a new, 39,000 square foot store. The Kroger originally was about 20,000, but expanded later to around 25,000. Kroger has a tendency to close older stores when new competition with new stores come along.

@willbygosh4887 7 месяцев назад

Publix needs to locate in West Virginia to compete with Krogers.

@natekidren Год назад

being in the DFW area and Kroger shopper myself, that is one PRETTY SMALL store to have been a Kroger for many years... wow. They're usually pretty decently sized.

@huskyninja9838 Год назад

Kroger's was tired of all the thefts and closed it. I miss that place

@robertpendergrass7996 2 месяца назад

What are you talking about they close because of lacking sales. Plus the building needed updated it was leased. kroger very seldom leased properties. They own their own property and store on the hill so it was a better financial move for them !

@chrispearson8779 Год назад

That would be a good location for an Aldi

@LukeO-1234 Год назад

There's a place called The coffee Bean off of Pennsylvania avenue. If you like coffee give it a try please. The owners are really nice

@Woeiselijah Год назад

This reminds me a lot of the old downtown clarksburg store #688. About the same size and they closed it down for similar reasons (built a new larger store at east point a few miles away). Unfortunate for the local community but business is business I suppose.

@judyjennings3426 Год назад

I know of a Kroger like that became a church. You never know what potential the place can have.

@davidellis5141 Год назад

Kroger is a decent company to work for .. Union protection & you start at top of price for position.

@jonathancreveling5658 9 месяцев назад

Kroger corporate is just a group of ruthless people

@Jammer.1 Год назад

It really sucks the big store owners got build farther away & close the smaller stores but when someone comes in wants to rent to run it as a store they want twice the value & the mom & pop's can't afford it ! So the buildings set until the city orders them torn down for code violations ! I never watch your vids but will check them out !