At Western Market, the people running the place grew up in the grocery business. Ken Hubbard was in high school in 1960 when he started bagging groceries for founder Inos Heard at the original store at Five Points West in…
Photos upon request BIRMINGHAM – The Alabama Retail Association today recognized 20 retail businesses with operations in 30 Alabama cities as Alabama Retailers of the Year or Centennial Retailers. Together, these businesses employ 2,413 people at 51 locations in Alabama….
TUSCUMBIA / BIRMINGHAM – What started as two young girls’ dream is now the retail flagship store in downtown Tuscumbia. When they were children, first cousins Courtney Thompson and Meagan Richardson operated a pretend store. “We always wanted a store,”…
Western Market Tops the More Than $20 Million Sales Category BIRMINGHAM – For 69 years, Western Market has served the grocery needs of the Birmingham community. It currently operates five locally owned stores. “We hope that when someone leaves one…
BIRMINGHAM – Books-A-Million Inc., the second largest bookseller in the United States, was honored today by the Alabama Retail Association as an Alabama Centennial Retailer, a retailer with 100 or more years in business in Alabama. The Books-A-Million story is…
CLANTON / BIRMINGHAM – While Stokes Automotive has been in business for 63 years, it has only been in its current location for the past eight years. “Our sales have doubled and our service work has tripled,” since the business…
GULF SHORES / SPANISH FORT / BIRMINGHAM – The 2017 Alabama Retailer of the Year judges describe the Original Oyster House Restaurants and Trading Co. as “more than just a restaurant company.” The retail experts were impressed with Original Oyster…
BIRMINGHAM – “From day one, we were blown away by how many people came in the door and the reviews we were getting,” said David Snyder, who with his wife, Andrea, founded Urban Cookhouse, a farm-to-fire-to-table, fast-casual restaurant. Since Urban…
VALLEY GRANDE / THOMASTON / BIRMINGHAM – David Oliver started in the grocery business 52 years ago. “I started real young, bagging groceries and mopping floors,” he said. He worked at a half dozen grocery stores, each larger than the…
RAINBOW CITY / BIRMINGHAM – Jodie Stanfield has been in the restaurant business for 32 years. While he has been associated with TGI Fridays, LongHorn Steakhouse and Applebee’s, mostly in the Birmingham market, he returned to his native Etowah County…