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Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 | 1:59 a.m.
The owner of Central Market is weighing his options after his refrigeration units have been out for more than three weeks.
The independent grocery store at 1101 Arizona St. shut down its meat counter and stopped selling milk, eggs, deli meats and other perishables last month when the units went out, owner Varinder Singh said. The major refrigeration units are connected, and when one went out, they all did, he said.
Ice cream freezers and drink coolers are still working, and those items are still for sale.
Produce is also still available at the store, though those cooler systems are not working, Singh said. Without cooling, the produce goes bad more quickly. As a result, Singh said, he sells half and throws the other half away.
The refrigeration units have been a problem since he bought the store two years ago, Singh said.
"The refrigeration is out every other month," he said, adding that it costs him $4,000 to $5,000 each time to get them working again. In addition, each time the units go out, he loses food, he said.
Daniel Goble, the previous owner of Central Market, said the refrigeration units were brand-new in 1986, and he replaced three out of the four during the time he owned the store.
Singh has been working with his insurance company to see if it will cover the latest repairs. If not, another option is to lease the meat counter and other perishable food sections to someone else.
In the meantime, he said, he will continue to run the store without perishables and hope for the best.
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Good bye, Central Market.
If you've lived here any amount of time (30+ years here for this writer), then you know that the MAIN reason to go to Central Market was the meat and produce, and then anything else that you bought there was extra sales for the store. That store was the only place to buy good quality meat, and the staff was always happy to fill special requests (special cuts, buffalo meat, etc). But now, the concern is not for the items that kept the store going, but instead to make the store a horrible attempt at a BC Dollar store.
BTW, even as cheap as Boulder people tend to be, good luck with the whole "dollar store" mentality.
You'll last another month or two, tops.
One more point, when some of your employees from the meat department are out looking for work, any kind of work, and the ones that are still there have no idea what they are going to do, it's pretty easy to see that you are not really serious about keeping the business open. If you are going to close, make it quick so someone else can go back to the way things were, and the store actually had customers.
As a steady customer, Central Market has great meat, good people and is a wonderful place to shop. I hope and pray every day that they can stay in business and I do shop there for the things they do have. I dread going to Vons and having to buy that overpriced, tough crap they try to pass off as meat. Hang in there Central Market we love you and want you to stay here.
All that I have to say is, Give me break. This is the stupidest story I have ever read. With all that goes on in Boulder City, this is some how worthy of print ???