Joanne Ging, left, Camdon Gilliland, center, and James Ging, right, help stock shelves Wednesday at Hometown Market in Oxford. (Photos by Shane Farley)
By SHANE FARLEY
OXFORD — Shelves at the Hometown Market in Oxford are being stocked and it will reopen as a grocery store next week. The previous owners closed the store in January 2019.
Now Beau and Stacie Gilliland and their family are taking a shot at providing the town with its own grocery store.
“This is a first time adventure for us. We’ve had a lot of interest in what we’re doing,” Stacie Gilliland said Wednesday evening as she helped stock the shelves. “People are excited.”
A grand opening is set for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. next Wednesday. Regular store hours will be from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Gillilands are new to the grocery biz. They will lease the building at 417 W. Main – along U.S. 160 – from the City of Oxford. Sumner County Economic Development also helped to get the store reopened, Stacie Gilliland said.
The Hometown Market building in Oxford.
The store will carry normal grocery store fare, including meat, produce and dairy. There will be a hardware section, which was popular when the store operated previously, but that won’t be up and running just yet.
The Gillilands live in rural Sumner County. They have three kids, Camdon, Dalton and Allison Leverett and her husband, Matthew, and a grandson, Bentley.
Stacie Gilliland said friends and family had helped to get the store ready to open.
She laughed and added that family would be “mostly how we keep this thing going.”
