Associated Foods member Ridley's is expanding to American Falls
Posted: August 23rd, 2023, 10:10 am
This is a bit of a head scratcher to me. The article does have the mayor painting a rosy picture of American Falls growing (maybe?), and this is replacing a former ALCO store as photographed.
I am surprised because Associated already has a member store in town, Ken's Food Market. Perhaps "Ken" is nearing retirement and not seeing a future buyer? Not sure. That store is definitely more of a 'small town' grocery but very clean and well maintained when I was last there c. 2019. It is the state liquor store for the town. It's also in the same center as the community's drug store, Radio Shack, and across from Family Dollar, and open Sundays. So I don't really see what Ridley's adds other than the potential to place the other center out of business.
There will be an Arctic Circle restaurant as part of the store build out and expansion, so I assume this will be similar to all the newer Associated Foods stores, without the ACE Hardware component apparently.
Idaho State Journal: American Falls to get a Ridley's
Note, the URL is from archive.today as Adams Publishing has instituted moderate pay-walling across their newspapers sites.
I am surprised because Associated already has a member store in town, Ken's Food Market. Perhaps "Ken" is nearing retirement and not seeing a future buyer? Not sure. That store is definitely more of a 'small town' grocery but very clean and well maintained when I was last there c. 2019. It is the state liquor store for the town. It's also in the same center as the community's drug store, Radio Shack, and across from Family Dollar, and open Sundays. So I don't really see what Ridley's adds other than the potential to place the other center out of business.
There will be an Arctic Circle restaurant as part of the store build out and expansion, so I assume this will be similar to all the newer Associated Foods stores, without the ACE Hardware component apparently.
Idaho State Journal: American Falls to get a Ridley's
Note, the URL is from archive.today as Adams Publishing has instituted moderate pay-walling across their newspapers sites.