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Slater's 16-year run in Cairo comes to an end
Sep 27, 2012 7:14 am
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Kyle Adams writes in The Daily Mail about the closing of Slater's Great American Marketplace in Cairo this week. One of the region’s last privately owned supermarkets, Slater's will close its doors for good 4 p.m., Sat., Sept. 29, 16 years to the day after it opened. It will be replaced by a Hannaford supermarket. The existing building will be demolished and a 35,000-square-foot store constructed in its place. As an independently owned business, Slater’s supported the community in ways large corporations do not, according to the store’s president, Ellsworth “Unk” Slater. “We were local before local was cool,” he said. The Hannaford store is expected to open in eight or nine months. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.
(Courtesy slatersgreatamerican.com)[/caption]Kyle Adams writes in The Daily Mail about the closing of Slater's Great American Marketplace in Cairo this week. One of the region’s last privately owned supermarkets, Slater's will close its doors for good 4 p.m., Sat., Sept. 29, 16 years to the day after it opened. It will be replaced by a Hannaford supermarket. The existing building will be demolished and a 35,000-square-foot store constructed in its place. As an independently owned business, Slater’s supported the community in ways large corporations do not, according to the store’s president, Ellsworth “Unk” Slater. “We were local before local was cool,” he said. The Hannaford store is expected to open in eight or nine months. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.