Pechin Shopping Village

Pechin Superfoods Market ( or just Pechins) is a shopping center that operates as a staple of the community by a new generation of family and friends, and is renowned for its low prices located in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
History
The store was founded in 1947 as Pechin Grocery by Sullivan "Sully" D'Amico in a former train depot on a winding, rural road. The facility was expanded over the following decades in a somewhat ramshackle manner over a nearby creek. Along with the grocery store, other facilities on site included a video store, a pharmacy, a beer distributor, a sporting goods shop, a clothing store, a farm supply distributor, a toy store, and a hardware store. Perhaps most famously, the facility's restaurant served a variety of foods for less than $1. Peachin gained fame throughout the Western Pennsylvania/Western Maryland/West Virginia/Eastern Ohio region due to its publicized low prices.
In 2005, D'Amico died, and Pechin relocated to a former (which had originally been the Montgomery Ward at the now Laurel Mall Flea Market on Route 119, which is also in Dunbar Township. The atmosphere has been changed to reflect Pechin as a mainstream grocery store, although various bargains that reflect early days remain. Also transferred to the new site were the beer distributor, hardware store, pharmacy (now no longer as a separate entity), and a take-out counter that somewhat resembles that original cafeteria. Over the years Sully’s love of fire trucks became well known as he amassed a collection well into the hundreds. So it is with great pride and in loving memory of “Sully” that the Pechin Firehouse Restaurant and Catering Company was opened.
In 2006, the old Shopping Village was destroyed by fire.

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