Grocery Outlet at Rehoboth Mall opening April 4
After nearly a year, renovations for the Grocery Outlet at the Rehoboth Mall appear to be nearing completion. A large banner announcing a Thursday, April 4 opening was recently installed along Route 1.
A Facebook page for the new store was created in February.
“Our grand opening is just five weeks away and we can't wait to meet all our new neighbors,” reads a Feb. 29 post on the Facebook page.
Grocery Outlet Bargain Market describes itself as “the nation’s largest extreme value retailer.” It was founded in 1946 in San Francisco, Calif., by Jim Read under the name Cannery Sales. As of now, there are no other Grocery Outlet stores in Delaware. There are two on Maryland’s Eastern Shore – Salisbury and Elkton.
According to a sign on the door, Grocery Outlet, 18910 Rehoboth Mall Blvd., will be open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week. The sign says the store offers “a wide selection of fresh produce, fresh meat, deli, dairy, packaged groceries, frozen, health and beauty care, and general merchandise products.”
Except for a Spirit Halloween in 2021, the space has been vacant since Peebles closed a few years ago. There had been talk of the off-price retailer Gordmans taking over the space, but it never came to fruition.
For more information on the Grocery Outlet in Rehoboth, call 302-727-0907 or look for the specific location on Facebook and Instagram under @RehobothGroceryOutlet.
The Rehoboth Mall is owned by Baltimore-based Cordish Companies.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
