![]() ![]() What took so long for it to finally open? She said the reconverted tenant space for Compare in the center had to adhere to various city and health department codes along with stringent Spring Lake building regulations.Ĭrrently the store has 15 employees. Some of the town’s major neighborhoods, including the Overhills and Bragg Estates areas, Holly Hills, Linden Oaks and Manchester Forest subdivisions, are in the area that would be served by the business. "We're here not just to make money," Pichardo said from her unfinished upstairs office, "but to support the city." This is the first Latin American store around this area. "We're going to have all the services that people just want to have in one site," said Zaida Pichardo, the 43-year-old store manager and native of the Dominican Republic. Nine years ago, Fayetteville opened a Super Compare Foods in a shopping plaza on Bonanza Drive. In October 2015, Spring Lake Alderman James Christian informally announced that Compare Foods was coming during a candidates forum at Town Hall. The business contains more than 3,000 different items and features produce, meat, deli and seafood departments. Her sister concurred before the two started to eye some of the cookware on display at one side of the 29,500-square-foot store. I'm for anything that can add to Spring Lake." ![]() You have people here from different countries and it adds diversity. "I think it's a good idea because it brings diversity into town," Akhidime said, hunched over the back of a shopping cart as she spoke. ![]() Her sister, Glendora Akhidime, accompanied her on the visit, as the siblings spent part of their early afternoon checking out the new store for the first time. "Walmart's not a grocery store Walmart just sells stuff. I see some potential," shopper Belinda Caldwell of Spring Lake said. In urban areas, residents live in a food desert if they are more than a mile from a grocery store. A food desert is an urban neighborhood or rural town that does not have ready access to fresh, healthy and affordable food, according to the U.S. The absence of a supermarket in a well-populated pocket of a city or town can pose problems for residents who are poor, elderly or don’t have their own transportation. "The citizens were asking for a long time when the store was going to open, and they got their answer Sunday morning." "We're very happy they opened," Spring Lake Mayor Larry Dobbins said Wednesday. In years past, Spring Lake also has been home to a Food Lion in the Skyland Plaza and, even earlier, a V-Point grocery store on Main Street.īut Walmart, for almost the last decade, has been the only significant place where residents could buy groceries. SPRING LAKE - The town of Spring Lake can no longer be defined as a food desert.įour years after the possibility was announced, the multicultural Compare Foods opened at noon Sunday, giving this Fort Bragg bedroom community its first full-fledged grocery store since the closure of the Carlie C’s IGA supermarket nine years ago.Ĭompare Foods is operating from the same building location as the previous IGA in Southwind Plaza shopping center. ![]()
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