The first store opened as Paramount Foods in Easton, Pennsylvania,[1] and completed its first day of business with a total of less than $20 in sales.

Ahart's Market operated a few locations, including the former Food Lanes in Allentown, Bethlehem, and Phillipsburg, New Jersey, each of which have since closed.

The Hometown, Pennsylvania Laneco became a TJ Bart's location before eventually closing and the lot being used to build a Wal-Mart.

[6] In 1997, TJ Bart's acquired the Laneco in Southside Easton, and eventually selling it to C-town in 2006.

items was a smiling woman holding a receipt in her left hand and cash in her right, the latter presumably having been spared by the former.