Robert's Company posted an update on social media about the status of :
McDade's Market and Froogel's have been bought by the Robert's Co. from Hattiesburg. Northside, Fondren and Belhaven will become Corner Markets. We have closed to make the transition with new suppliers. Going away are Best Choice and Always Save brands and coming is Essential Everyday. We will have brand names as well. New owners and new looks.
NORTHSIDE DRIVE CORNER MARKET IS OPEN!! Hopefully Fondren and Belhaven will open on Wednesday of this week as Corner Markets. Westland Plaza store is open and is called Grocery Depot - a cost plus store. Fondren Corner Market will be fully stocked with all fresh produce and expanded meat selection with fresh cut Angus beef!!! We may be a bit thin with offerings for a few days but trucks are arriving daily to get us fully stocked. I want to thank you all for continuing to shop during our lean times since last summer at the Fondren location. I am always just a phone call away if you have a question are a special request.
Yes, the stores WILL be keeping their delicatessens open. Word to Roberts: Don't mess with that fried chicken and cornbread at Maywood Mart, the chicken pot pie and Friday catfish at Fortification, or the baked chicken.
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At Maywood, I hope they will teach the cooks how to season their greens and cabbage. They do not cook them as they use to. Don't mess with the chicken though.
Maywood still had the pimento cheese yesterday!
Stop by the Roberts Company's Corner Market in Hattiesburg and see for yourself what you are about to get. It is in the same shopping center as The Purple Parrot and Crescent City Grill. Excellent deli, with great fried chicken.
I was just about to say the same thing. That Hattiesburg shopping center has been transformed by RSJ and that grocery store.
@2:56 PM
I wish there was still a railroad ticket available to get me down to Hattiesburg. Three of my tires have been popped by sinkholes in the streets and my mechanic said I will need a new CV axle and front struts. I think the state of the roads in Jackson are a conspiracy to get us all riding JATRAN.
I pass through Hattiesburg routinely for work and eat at the deli at Corner Market on Hardy Street several times a month. It's pretty darn good-including catfish on fridays. So all you Jacksonites don't get your under-girdles bunched up. They'll take good care of you as well.
While they're doing such a good job they can take over the old Jitney Premier building on Old Canton Road!
3:31
St John is not in the mix for the Mid Town Market in Hattiesburg.....not sure if he even owns the buildings his restaurants are located. Actually, not sure if he even still owns the restaurants, he may be just the face and the ownership is with another group.
Problem is folks in Hattiesburg learned how to cook from folks in the boot. Here in Jackson we are still trying to figure out if it's cooked at all.
5:02...If not for the St. John restaurants, that whole strip would be a ghost town. Hattiesburg is damn lucky he invested in that area when everybody else was moving to Oak Grove strip malls.
From what I gather, he co-invests in all of the restaurants with an individual owner-operator. Not sure about the original ones, but the new mid-towner and the burger placed follow that model.
No way that mall owner would have spent so much on a facade just for that small grocery store.
THE ROBERTS COMPANY IS WRONG FOR CLOSING ALL STORES, CUSTOMERS WERE TOLD THE STORE ON FORTIFICATION STREET WOULD REOPEN 3 FEB, NOW WE ARE TOLD THE STORE WILL NOT REOPEN UNTIL 6 FEB. I AM A REGULAR CUSTOMER AND SHOP THERE FOR YEARS BECAUSE I DO NOT DRIVE. THIS STORE IS WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE, I AM A SENIOR CITIZEN AND APPARENTLY THE NEW OWNERS DO NOT CARE ABOUT SENIOR CITIZENS.
I sure hope the new owners of McDades can convince the Maywood Mart owners to fix the Maywood Mart sign on the interstate and paint over the facade where signs have been removed. It looks like every other low rent shopping center in Jackson. At least Logan Farms got rid of that nasty truck they were parking on the frontage road for free advertising.
@3:21
ALL CAPS BOOMER POSTING DETECTED.
IF YOU ARE OLD WHY DONT YOUR CHILDREN OR YOUR CHURCH HELP YOU?
YOU ARE A DRAIN ON SOCIETY NOW AND WHAT MAKES YOU THINK A BUSINESS OWES YOU ANYTHING?
Thus far VERY little difference between the old McDade's and new Corner Market at Maywood Mart. They basically just cleaned up a little and de-cluttered. Not complaining about that, but hoping for a lot more change to come to be more like Hattiesburg Hardy Street store.
Senior Citizen (which I am as well!), @ 3:21 a.m. please stop yelling (all caps) and get a little more sleep before you post. Maybe you'll be a little more objective then. I'm sure the Roberts family is sorry they couldn't open when planned. Things happen, especially in old buildings. You should know about that given where you live.
IT IS EXHAUSTING TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS. AND IT MAKES THE COMMENTER LOOK LIKE A NUMBSKULL.
Now, back to Corner Market. Citizens, it is early days, and it is far too soon to squawk and flap. For Pete’s sake, simmer down, and let the new owners complete their stocking and refurbishing! It will all be accomplished in the fullness of time, and whatever the result, it cannot be any worse than the abysmally-named “Froogel’s”.
CAN WE AGREE ON THIS?
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