Heritage IGA announces plans to close

Less than one year after celebrating its grand opening, Heritage IGA in Upper Sandusky has announced plans to close.
“We just weren’t doing the sales,” owner Dave Kelch said.
Kelch said the store will begin operating on reduced hours from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday and will close for business Saturday, May 26. Also beginning Sunday, all items in the store will be discounted.
“Everything will be 20 percent off,” Kelch said.
The store at 415 W. Church St., Upper Sandusky, opened last June and has 50 employees.
Kelch also owns the Heritage IGA at 479 E. Market St., Tiffin.
“I appreciate everyone who patronized us,” Kelch said. “The people that shop here are very upset, but we invite them to come to our store in Tiffin where we are going to have great deals as we did here (in Upper Sandusky).”

By CHANDA NEELY
Staff writer

Posted by Daily Chief on May 19, 2012. Filed under Local News,Recent Headlines. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

2 Responses to Heritage IGA announces plans to close

Carol Schaber

May 22, 2012 at 9:17 am

Going to Tiffin to shop is not the point , there is a need for a grocery store in that area of Upper. When we visited last summer, I was glad to go to that same location I had for so many years before when it was Cunningham’s. People in Upper need and want a conventent grocery store and many do not want to drive out in the country to Wal Mart. A&A will hopefully be there in downtown for a good long time. I live in Soutn Carolina now and miss Upper (not in the winter!) and enjoy coming home for visits in the summer.
bushster

May 22, 2012 at 8:18 pm

I think the problem was that when they opened up the new IGA,they were over priced for this area. Later they finally lowered some prices but by then it was to late. A lot of times i ask for something and was told we don’t carry that in all the stores.