Probably sometime during the first week of July. All produce is fresh as are our bakery and meat products – at less cost than places like Trader Joe’s and other whole food outlets.”

We deliver a variety of gourmet foods, cleanliness and customer accommodations. “Anything to facilitate a good shopping experience, from the moment a customer enters the front door until they leave. Everyone has been extremely kind in welcoming us into the community.” Their public relations office says, Of course, we wouldn’t be anywhere without the hundreds of local families who own and operate their own Grocery Outlet stores, allowing us to deliver superior customer service personalized to each of the local communities we serve.”Ĭhad explains the situation in Hemet. Whether it is through packaging changes, surplus inventory or product overruns, our buyers source it all – everything from fresh meat and produce to our natural and organic NOSH item to the WOW deal we can hardly believe ourselves.” “With the help of brilliant buyers who shop the world, traveling thousands of miles each year to find the most thrilling deals on brand name groceries.

Today they boast 1.5 million customers per week, which makes Grocery Outlet the nation’s largest extreme value retailer. Jim Read took advantage as the stores spread across the country with 300 stores active now with more to come. How do they maintain the business with such large discounts?Īccording to the company history, the idea took off like a prairie fire and has yet to be contained. The company was originally started by the Read family in 1946 and is now a third-generation in the business. The prices are drastically reduced we buy and pass the savings on to our customers. If a company buys like 1200 cases of green beans – and they are not moving fast enough elsewhere, we can buy them at a discount and they are not stuck with the overload. Sometimes we get overruns, when too much of the product is brought to the market and is not being sold in certain markets. We are not stocked with insurance company buyouts of fire sales-nothing like that. For instance, if a company wants to introduce a new product, they will start with a company like us to see how the public responds and accepts the product before they move into the more conventional markets. “We are 40 to 70 percent off of standard prices, offering premium gourmet items from Europe, and around the world.”Ĭome to find out it is no secret. That’s not the way it is with Grocery Outlet. That can become quite expensive in a year’s time. If you buy for a big name company, whether it be Levi Straus or Kroger Grocery Company you pay for all that expensive advertising. He and his wife were located in Camarillo (Ventura County) prior to relocating in Hemet. Why, I asked, did you choose Hemet? Chad has some relatives here but that was not his reason. They have been with Grocery Outlet for only 3 years. Chad and Leslie Trask, the new husband and wife management team, were anxious to tell me all about themselves, the store and the company. I arranged an interview with the new owners, curious to know why we would have two stores in Hemet and what made them attractive to the community. Hemet, for instance, recently opened a new store at the busiest corner in Hemet, an area that is growing with great speed – Florida Avenue at Sanderson on the west side. Folks who would like to operate a food business can apply and join up with the Grocery Outlet Company by taking over an existing store or perhaps open one where there is a need. Grocery outlets are not individually owned.

Did that mean the store was shutting down? No, and here’s why. It seems that the current owners Darryl and Barbara Salkele are retiring. I was in the local store last week when one of the cashiers told me it would be the last day of the current owners. Their patrons sure know about the quality of their product. I doubt a lot of people know anything about their origins or products. They stand up against Ralph’s, Kroger or Safeway any day of the week. The company was established in 1946 and today claims 300 thriving stores. The Grocery Outlet in Hemet has been there for as far back as I can remember. Both ideas fit The Hemet Grocery Outlet in the mini-mall at San Jacinto Street and Florida Avenue on the Eastside of Hemet. We have all been cautioned at one time or another to not judge a book by its cover, or just because you never heard of it doesn’t mean it is sub-standard.

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