Winfield Save-A-Lot Out As Mobile Food Market Supplier; Store’s Inventory Dwindling

It appears the Save-A-Lot grocery store in Winfield is closing.

Inventory at the store was thinning Monday afternoon, meat and produce offerings were very limited, and a Facebook post from organizers of the Anchor Mobile Food Market indicated the grocery-store-on-wheels is on hiatus due to a loss of support from its supplier. It’s supplier has been the Winfield Save-A-Lot.

According to a post from the mobile food market’s Facebook page, it will not be making any stops this week.

Save-A-Lot’s Winfield location opened February 2016. The grocer was brought to its location at 1906 E. 9th with help from Cowley First — a local economic development agency — because the USDA had identified that area as a food desert.

Food deserts are described as an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food. Grocery stores operating under the Apple Market and Cash Saver brands previously closed over the years, at the same location.

Kerri Falletti, with Cowley First, referred questions about a possible closing to the store’s ownership. A manager at the store did the same.

Attempts by KSOK-NewsCow to contact management have been unsuccessful.