A regional grocery chain will soon fill two vacancies left in January when Walmart closed several area stores.
Eighty-eight years after Brookshire's Grocery Co. launched its first store, the company will open two of its new Spring Markets in DeKalb and Redwater.
"The Spring Market is a new, smaller imprint for Brookshire's," said Rebecca Sanders, a Brookshire's representative.
"These stores will take up less space than a Brookshire's or a Super 1 Foods. We have stores all around DeKalb and Redwater, this is part of our trade area. It will be good to be serving those communities directly."
The DeKalb ribbon cutting ceremony will be 10 a.m. Monday and the one in Redwater will take place 10 a.m. Sept. 6.
Though smaller than a traditional grocery store, the Spring Market is still a full-service facility. The business will offer fresh meat, produce, a bakery and dairy goods. Health and beauty products will also be available, and each Spring Market will have a fuel center for vehicles.
"We expect our customers to be pleasantly surprised at our prices," Sanders said.
In addition, Spring Markets add jobs to the community. Brookshire's encourages its employees to be involved in the local community.
Twenty-five Spring Markets are planned. The first ribbon cuttings took place Aug. 8 in the Texas towns of Hughes Springs, Naples and Frankston.
"We want our employees to be fully a part of our communities," Sanders said.
The Spring Market is named in honor of the first Brookshire's built in Tyler, Texas, in September 1928.
"That first store was built on Spring Avenue in Tyler, 88 years go this week," Sanders said.