Local Grocers Build Success On Unique Characteristics
November 3, 2011 | 1 min to read
Picture an industry dominated for decades by large chain stores. Add traditionally tight margins. Then ask Rob Prisco and Peter Arvanitis how their independent grocery stores are doing.
“We’ve learned some things the past year,” Prisco says. “Long hours and a lot of headaches,” Arvanitis responds. But “we’re doing OK,” is what each adds with a hint of both pride and accomplishment.
In fact, their separate successes are an indication that independent businesses can prosper — even today, even in the highly competitive retail grocery sector. Building on unique characteristics can make the difference.
Prisco is president of Prisco’s Fine Foods Inc., a one-store, family owned business that has been in Aurora since 1926. Arvanitis is general manager of two purposely different Village Market Place stores, in Skokie and Carol Stream, that he owns with his father, brother and a cousin.
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