Food items Town to establish new ‘state-of-the-artwork supermarket’ in Kentucky to switch current retail outlet

Food stuff Metropolis to construct new grocery store in South Williamson, Kentucky, which will substitute the present store. / Image courtesy: Food Metropolis

Food items City is arranging to create a new grocery store in South Williamson, Kentucky, with an opening day this fall, the Abingdon, Virginia-dependent grocery retailer announced Friday. The 51,300-square-foot supermarket will be built on the exact same web page using some of the existing building, which is located at 28093 Thompson Plaza.

“We’re proud to have served the citizens of Pike County for 60 years and we could not be more psyched to have the opportunity to develop a new condition-of-the-art Foods City to provide our loyal clients,” explained Steven C. Smith, Food stuff Metropolis president and CEO, in a statement.

The corporation strategies to temporarily shut the present store on April 8, and workforce will be relocated to surrounding Foods Town places throughout the building of the new store.

“As you can consider, closing the retailer, even quickly, was an incredibly difficult decision,” stated Smith. “Unfortunately, it is the only viable option to securely construct a new store on the exact same web page. Rest certain that we will use each individual resource at our disposal to entire the venture as quickly as possible to lower inconvenience to our clients. For the duration of the closing, we would absolutely like to invite our buyers to shop our Pikeville and Shelbiana Food stuff Metropolis areas, as very well as our Super Greenback Foods Centre.”

The Food items Metropolis Pharmacy, which will be relocated to a non permanent facility in entrance of the keep, will remain open all over the design, carrying a confined selection of WIC-accredited grocery and convenience objects for purchasers wanting to redeem their Kentucky or West Virginia WIC benefits.

“We’re very fired up about the new retailer and the more products and services and conveniences it will provide, and I consider our consumers will come across it well value the wait around,” stated retailer supervisor, Josh Blevins, in a assertion.

Increasing beyond its grocery assortment, the new retail store will element a floral boutique, pharmacy, Starbucks Cafe and an onsite café with a seating area, as very well as an off-web site Foods Metropolis Gas N’ Go. Food City’s GoCart curbside pickup will be out there as effectively.

The new retailer will characteristic vitality-successful glass cooler doors, parking lot lights and refrigeration units to movement sensors and 100% LED lights, Foods Town said.

“Our customers can hope to find the exact smiling faces, leading-quality products and low costs, alongside with expanded selection/range and some wonderful new solutions and conveniences,” claims Smith.   

Meals City parent K-VA-T Food items Outlets operates 150 retail shops in the course of southeast Kentucky, southwest Virginia, east Tennessee, north Georgia and Alabama.