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[NOV. 1, 2003]  During Thursday mornings ribbon cut Kroger manager Pat Kent recognized her co-manager Rick Ellis and zone manager Tracy Blancher, thanking them for their efforts in getting the store together so quickly.  Amazingly it took only 30 days to transform the store.

Shoppers are met with a visual sense of ease created through wide strokes of subdued colors and uncluttered spaces. The store is organized in a seemingly familiar pattern common to most food stores working from produce to deli, meats, dairy and frozen foods on the perimeter. The inner isles are wide and easy to navigate. Kent said ‘I like how bright and spacious the new store is.”

Kent said she likes the new section at the back of the produce department, “Natures Market.” It has many fine products good for health. You will also find an eight foot section of organic produce in that area.

Brochures detail the store layout and where to find the products you are looking for, but shoppers can easily see up and down aisles and their categories are well marked.


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The new location is the site of the old Eagle Food Store located in the WalMart shopping plaza on the west end of town on Rt. 10. at 1475 Woodlawn Rd. Being the highest bidder, The Kroger Company acquired the local Eagle Store through bankruptcy proceedings in September. 

Kroger has hired 41 new employees moving into the new, bigger store. Nine Eagle employees were hired. The new store now employs 120 staff and management.  

Cashier Jan Brown is one of the past Eagle employees that Kroger hired. Brown was behind her register checking the first customers out in the opening hour. She said she is glad to have her job. “I like the clean appearance and openness in the new store,” Brown said.

Friday afternoon shoppers packed the new store.

[Jan Youngquist]

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