Store closing: White Market offers half-off deal on its few remaining items
Ben Freed | AnnArbor.com
“It was my wife’s idea to do the half-price sale,” White Market owner Dave Jones said.
Most of the shelves are empty at White Market, but what's left is 50 percent off.
Ben Freed | AnnArbor.com
Jones has owned White Market, 609 E. William St. in Ann Arbor, since 1984. The landlord, Costas Boutsikakis, who bought the building in September 2011 did not renew the Market's lease for next month after finding a new tenant for the space.
The half-off sale will last until closing on Tuesday and will continue Wednesday until the end of the day or until the store runs out of goods.
“We have to be out of here by the end of the month,” Jones said. “So we can’t really go past Wednesday.”
Cassie Pindo stopped by the store Tuesday to pick up some groceries and to say goodbye to the owners.
“We’re going to miss this place very much,” she said.
“There is no more good grocery around here with White Market gone. For the last few years I’ve shopped here all the time, and now someone else buys the building and decides we need another restaurant here? It will affect the whole area.”
Ben Freed covers business for AnnArbor.com. Reach him at 734-623-2528 or email him at benfreed@annarbor.com. Follow him on twitter @BFreedinA2
Comments
arborani
Thu, Aug 30, 2012 : 3:19 a.m.
Got me thinking. Does anyone remember the Daisy Market from the 50s? I think it was on West Liberty or William, in the first block off Main Street. Great meat. Wonderfully handy if you were working downtown.
Sandra Samons
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 4:45 p.m.
Too bad that A2.com did not offer a little history of this landmark business and tell how Clayton Hollis made it what it was, maybe some favorite memories of the role it played in the campus area.
umichjim
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 2:12 p.m.
Sad. Not all living in the neighborhood walking to a store to buy a few grocery items want to go to Babo's which while good is very expensive. Just being able to stop in and get some plain groceries like cereal, sugar, oil, French's mustard, canned tomatoes, milk etc. without driving somewhere is what's lost.
Emily
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 12:37 p.m.
What this story lacks in actual new's, it make's up for in apostrophe's.
mr_annarbor
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 12:37 p.m.
It's interesting contrasting this story with the story on the Landmark student apartment building. It's the old Ann Arbor vs. the new Ann Arbor. White Market is what Ann Arbor was. The Landmark is what it's becoming. Local businesses are great, but they have to keep up with the times. White Market didn't really do that, sorry to say. Townies can decry it all they want, but the future for food retailing downtown is more like Babo than White Market.
Brad
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 1:08 p.m.
I don't think it was "townies" shopping at White Market. At least not in the last 30 years. As far as the future of AA being Landmark, let's hope not.
shepard145
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 3:03 a.m.
Walmart has great low prices and amazing steaks!! My recommendation is for AA ites to jump in your rusted out custom vans and head to Walmart and stock up. Don't waste your money shopping locally.
shepard145
Thu, Aug 30, 2012 : 3:24 a.m.
Yes...just stirring up the hippies a bit. ....it's good for them - hope nobody spilled their herbal tea.
SEC Fan
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 4:16 p.m.
I sense a small amount of sarcasm. Yes?
OLDTIMER3
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 12:32 p.m.
At least Kroger sells a lot of local grown products unlike Walmart.
Wolf's Bane
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 11:34 a.m.
Your amazing WalMart steaks come at too steep of a price. The American worker and Farmer are threatened by WalMart unfair market practices and the quality of the meat should be suspect since deregulation goes hand-in-hand with their business practices.
gmo99
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 10:20 a.m.
Don't shop locally? I don't own a van, rusted or otherwise- never have. Why not support the local business, why support a giant non-local corporation? What kind of comment was this shepard145?
Middle America
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 6:52 a.m.
Rusted out vans? What? You make no sense at all.
Youwhine
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 2:47 a.m.
Sweet! Half off an over-inflated price on three year old off brand salad dressing...
sellers
Wed, Aug 29, 2012 : 1:42 a.m.
-- for the loss of a downtown market.
slave2work
Tue, Aug 28, 2012 : 10:36 p.m.
Address?
Julie Baker
Tue, Aug 28, 2012 : 10:51 p.m.
609 E. William St. We've added that to the story.