The IGA Grocery Store in Inez will be closing its doors Monday January 6, 2020. They will be open with discounted prices until then.
The downturn in the local economy is blamed for the closure especially since the closing of the coal companies that once supplied a huge boom for Martin County.
Around 60 years ago, Derle Walker opened the store calling it The Inez Supermarket. I remember visiting this store with my parents the whole time I was growing up. It was the only store in town. Warfield had Copleys Market and Inez had Inez Supermarket.
Martin County did get a Save-A-Lot store put in around 16 years ago which helped out the county also.
The Inez IGA store was run by Judy Oosley, Derle Walker’s daughter. The store has had a couple of different names such as Inez Supermarket, Inez Shop Rite and IGA, but it has always stayed in the family.
Judy stated on her Facebook Page that the closing is due to the economy, and lack of customers is why the store will be closing. She prompts local residents to support the community by shopping at the Warfield location.
The store will be missed for sure, especially by some of the residents who would walk to the store from Quail Hollow Apartments.
maybe the state will build them a new grocery school since they have built them a new school and going to build them a new water plant
KAG, go back and take a good look at what you wrote. No one is going to believe you are Charles. When Charles writes something, it doesn’t look and sound like he went to just the third grade.
Thank you Citizen, she is quite amusing when she thinks she’s pulling one off! Don’t you think she actually made it to 3rd grade?
Do you not Don’t you 🙂
If the store wouldn’t have charged outrageous prices they would have sold more and the meat would have been fresher, not brown. I’m surprised someone hasn’t died from eating it. To bad we can’t have a store around here like food city or Walmart.
With the right incentives from the city and/or county government Sabrina, you may be able to get a Food City. A Walmart however will never come, and perhaps you should thank God. Walmart sucks the life’s blood out of any town they come to, they destroy long time family business and local economies, then invest their profit (your money) elsewhere. The savings they claim to give you are not worth the damage they cause to a small town.
When a Walmart comes to town, they bankrupt all the little mom and pop stores. They end up taking in all of the consumer dollars and sending them some place else. . Eventually the only jobs left are at Walmart. The paychecks the employees get are spent right back at Walmart. Esentially making the town a ghost town except for Walmart , kentacohut, and booth gas stations . You do not want a Walmart in martin county.
Maybe if they hadn’t wasted everything Daryl left them, like building a million dollar house up saltwell and Judy and brad would quit fighting over money they wouldn’t be closing and Save a lot open in 2000.
I hate to see this. Inez will be a ghost town, Rite Aid closed now IGA,and no one who can help get more jobs in the county won’t try if it don’t fill there pockets. The ones in office years ago should have been thinking of this and trying to get factories in here for work. This is why so many has had to leave so they could take care of their families.
The only town in that area that didn’t base it’s complete economy on the coal industry was Pikeville. The towns that never looked past coal, will be as they are…ghost towns. I’m for coal, not against it, but facts are facts.