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Grand Forks’ Buy-Low Foods to close this spring

Company offers scant explanation as to why the store is going under
Laurie Tritschler
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(L-R) Buy-Low Foods manager Daniel presents the Boundary Community Food Bank’s Dean Scown and Janet Thorpe with a $430 cheque on Feb. 16. The money came from Buy-Low points donated by customers who left their bills in the Food Bank’s collection box on their way out of the store, according to Thorpe. Photo courtesy of Janet Thorpe

Grand Forks’ Buy-Low Foods will close its doors forever on May 21, bringing to an end the grocery’s 30 years in the community.

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Cathy Flynn, spokesperson for Buy-Low’s corporate office, said Thursday, March 9, that, “We are very grateful to the team in this location who have worked hard and we are supporting them through this transition to help find new opportunities in grocery retail or other employment on a case by case basis.”

Flynn did not specify why the company is shuttering the store other than to say the decision was a hard one that came about “after careful consideration.”

Forty-five people now work at the store, Flynn said.

Grand Forks’ Buy-Low Foods has been a big supporter of community initiatives, including the Boundary Community Food Bank and Gospel Chapel’s Christmas hamper program.

 

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