Strack, Van Til Families Buy Back Strack & Van Til In Auction

The Region's largest and best known independent supermarket chain will remain under local control after the original families that owned it banded together and placed a successful bid in a bankruptcy court-supervised auction.

Strack & Van Til President and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Strack said he, the Strack family, the Van Til family and a few others put in a successful bid for 20 Strack & Van Til stores.

"We won!" Jeff Strack said in an email. "We are getting our stores back!"

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