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Last updated on Wednesday, March 28, 2018
(MITCHELL) - The Mitchell Jay C located at 1240 W. Main Street will permanently close today at 4 p.m. according to a Jay C representative after a “high volume of customers come through shopping the great deals”.
According to Tim McGurk, Regional Director of Corporate Affairs at Kroger, the store has lost more than $1 million during the last 5 years.
"Financial projections show that the store would suffer even greater losses in future years if left open," McGurk said.
The 70 employees of the Mitchell Jay C were offered similar employment opportunities at other area Jay C or Ruler stores. There will be full-time opportunities made available at Kroger locations in southern Indiana and Louisville, specifically New Albany and Jeffersonville.
The company remains to serve the Mitchell community as they take on a $600,000 remodel that will transform the current Jay C facility into a new and modern Ruler Grocery store. When the remodel is complete, the current Ruler location will move to the newly remodeled facility.
The remodel is expected to be complete by the fall of 2018.
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