So I took my 3rd trip to tunkhannock today. The first picture is me on my first trip in January , the second is from my 2nd trip + the last two are from today.
I wanted the video to be longer and show a little more but I'm still happy with the way it turned out.
The trip is about 4 hours long to get there from where I live in Maryland and actually requires a drive up a mountain.
We got there at about 7:00 pm and the store was relatively empty of customers and employees. The video shows the same route that Randy's final store tour video that he posted the morning before the shooting. The store still has the same layout and alot of the same fixtures (floors, shelves, doors etc) on my last post from my previous trip, I mentioned that you have to walk into the stock room and the break room to use the bathroom, so I dont really use the bathroom, I take the opportunity to look at the breakroom and the little bit of the backroom you can see. Unfortunately, I didn't get any good footage of the breakroom but my brother did.
The store itself has a very lonely aura. Its not scary or unpleasant, just lonely. Since I dont do alot of shopping at small chain grocery stores (I'm mostly a Walmart shopper), the store always seems very small and old to me. It sits in a very small version of a strip mall, with a pizza shop and a liquor store to its left hand side. The community is kind of bordered by woods and fields. You can see the mountain terrain in the distance from the parking lot.
They have a self checkout which it seems like most people use, me and my brother used it this time and the last time we went.
All in all, it was a nice trip and I got to see the store like I wanted. I like to go every 6 months and will probably go back for my birthday, which is actually the anniversary of the shooting. There is no kind of memorial or mention of anyone who was killed during the shooting within the store. I have never asked anyone there about the shooting or randy because I feel like if I did they would ask me to leave and not return, so I'd rather not ask.
Some people who work there wear badges that say they have worked there for 10 years or more, so evidently, they knew him. I just feel like they wouldn't be interested in speaking about him or the shooting.
I'm not entirely sure why I'm drawn to the case or randy in particular. I think randy is one of the most interesting people I've come across so far and I'd like to spend more time in tunkhannock eventually. I just wanted to document this visit and share it with anyone else who is interested it randy or the weis shooting.
So, if you are, I hope you enjoy and feel free to ask me any questions or contact me if you want to talk about randy!
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