The grand opening went very smoothly. We're very pleased with the results, Ron Freeman, a spokesperson for Asheville, N.C.-based Ingles, told the Farragut Press. The store includes everything we currently offer at other sites.
The Ingles site, with its deli and bakery and its expanded meat and produce areas, is now a popular lunch destination for Farragut residents and businessmen, according to the newspaper.
We've opened the store, and we've opened our I Market convenience store and fuel station, so we've been very pleased with it, Freeman said. We hope that the momentum we built on the opening weekend will keep going for us and for our customers on through the holidays.
About the I Market, Pressley told the Farragut Press, [We've got] coffee and fast-consumption type foods in it, beverages and chips and stuff like that. [It's got] three gas pumps on each side plus one diesel pump.
Meanwhile, the supermarket includes expanded grocery and organic food lines, as well as a beer cave, a seafood and fresh-meat counter and a pharmacy.
Despite the size of the store, Freeman said customers should expect no changes in Ingles' business practices and customer service. We do these things often enough, hopefully we've got the program down pat, he said.
Freeman said Farragut was chosen as home for one of the largest Ingles markets because of the room there.
We had purchased that whole shopping center [Farragut Towne Square] a year or two ago. That gave us the ability to expand the store, he said. It was a great opportunity for us to expand.
Ingles Markets Inc. is a supermarket chain with operations in six southeastern states. Based in Asheville, N.C., the company operates 196 supermarkets. In conjunction with its supermarket operations, the company also operates 73 neighborhood shopping centers, all but 16 of which contain an Ingles supermarket.
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