Aroostook IGA stores under new ownership
Aroostook County is seeing a shift in ownership in three IGA grocery stores effective March 6.
The Bangor Daily News reported that Scott and Rena Carlin of Presque Isle have signed an agreement to sell IGA stores in Mars Hill, Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle to Joshua Tweedie, who runs Big Rock Transportation. The Carlins owned the stores for 18 years. IGA grocery stores are operated as retail franchises. Scott Carlin will stay on as a consultant for a year.
“It was an opportunity I felt I couldn’t pass up,” Tweedie told the BDN.
The grocery store business has been in flux for a while now, with big-box stores and independent grocers all wooing an increasingly fickle, on-the-go consumer, mixed with shifts in consumer’s buying habits, more types of retailers selling groceries and household staples online.
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