Save-A-Lot expected to open in early fall

Applications available Sept. 1

By Glypie Grider
NH Staff Writer

— Photo by MAGGIE WILLIAMS
Workers have been renovating the old Webster’s Market for about a month now in anticipation of the coming of a new Save-A-Lot store on the site. The store’s owner, Tony Simon, said he expects the store to be open in late September or early October. It will include the latest interior design of the chain.

Construction workers have been on site for the past six weeks, earnestly trying to renovate and overhaul the former Webster’s Market into a modernized Save-A-Lot, a national retail grocery chain.
Tony Simon, along with three partners who comprise Anchor Foods Inc., own the store on Hwy. 127. The store is scheduled to make its debut by early October.
“Our fingers are crossed for mid-to-late September, but realistically, it will probably be October before we’re open,” Simon said.
Anchor Foods, Inc. purchased the building three months ago and workers have quickly been remodeling and restructuring it.
“We’ve had to do some pretty extensive overhaul, but it’ll look great when we’re done,” Simon said.
The Save-A-Lot company, founded in 1977, recently went through a period of major modernization, and the Owen County store will reflect the company’s latest decor package.
“We’ll have a brighter interior look and some color changes, which our regular customers may recognize as different,” Simon said.
Simon, who owns six other Save-A-Lot stores in Frankfort, Georgetown, Lawrenceburg, Nicholasville, LaGrange and Hodgenville, said some of the other stores will be remodeled, but the Owen County one will have the freshest look.
Several Owen Countians who regularly shop in the Frankfort store often asked about when the chain would move to Owen County, Simon said.
“With that in mind, we did our research and found a building,” he explained. “The opportunity was there for us as well as the people in Owen County.”
The new store will carry more national brands than customers are used to, Simon said, as well as a fresh line of meat and extensive produce.
Simon’s son, A.J. Simon, will be the store manager, and Lori Stivers, an Owen Countian who managed the Frankfort store, will come in as supervisor. Applications will be available on site starting Sept. 1 for other positions.
“People should come out, give us a chance,” Simon said. “Everything’s 100 percent guaranteed, so if you don’t like it, you’ll get your money back.”