Niemann Foods announced today that they have signed a lease with Raul
Walters Properties, owner of the Twin Pike Shopping Center.  NFI plans a
major renovation of the former Kroger space with a spring of 2014
opening anticipated.  “It’s been a long and somewhat difficult process,
but things are in motion now”, says Rich Niemann, President & CEO of
NFI, parent company of County Market.

“The community has been without a full service supermarket long
enough.  Even though we don’t have access to the property until
September, we will be working on our plans and will hit the ground
running this fall.”

Niemann Foods, founded in 1917, is associate owned, and based in
Quincy, IL.  Operating over 100 retail stores, including County Markets,
Pick A Dilly’s, Save A Lots and ACE Hardware stores, providing
employment to almost 5,000 people in IL, MO & Iowa.