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Ken and Cheryl Roth
Kitcherie.r coy* oppn
new food store here
The first thing one notices
about the owners of Roth Food
Market, Seaforth's new grocery
store which opened yesterday, is
that they seem awfully young to
be running their own grocery
busniess.
"When you're young is the
only time to do it," owner Ken
Roth says.
Ai
Ken and Cheryl Roth ' are
young, but they have a great deal
of experience. Ken, almost 26,
and a native of Shakespeare, has
been working for eight years,
"ever since I dropped out of
school" in the grocery business in
Kitchener.
He says that although the
Seaforth store is the first he's
owned, he worked for Highway
Market in Kitchener for five years
and managed the second a
Knechtel store there for three.
Ken's wife Cheryl is nearly 23
and she has worked throughout
their marriage. She is originally
from Rostock. She will be book-
keeper and work as a cashier in
the new store. The Roths have
two children, Angie, nine months
and Tracey, three.
4 The pace has been pretty hectic
as they work to get the store open
this week, the Roths said. They
lope to move to Seaforth next
week, to an apartment above
Hildebrand Paint and Paper, but
they have been commuting every
day from Kitchener until their
new home is redecorated.
"It's a long drive every night,"
Cheryl Roth says and she com-
mented that it was pretty hard to
get things ready in the store with
the small children around. The
Roths now have a babysitter.
The couple started about June
9 getting the vacant store,
formerly the Candian Tire outlet,
transformed to a modern grocery
store. They've employed a large
number of local people getting
the store stocked and ready and
will probably have a part time
staff of about 10 after the store is
opened.
The couple say they are looking
forward to living in Seaforth,
where everyone has been very
friendly. "Everyone who walks in
talks to you," Cheryl says.
Because they both come from-
4 small towns they said they would
rather live in .a small place than a
big:city ulike Kitchener where you
might not know your next door
neighbour.
The new store, the 18th K food
store in the province, has about
2100 square feet of displayspace.
They will carry a complete line of
foods, frozen goods, dairy and
fruit and vegetable products, but
won't sell fresh meats. Explain-
ing that good butchers are hard to
get and a meat section expensive
to operate, Ken said "If business'
justifys it, perhaps we'll get into,
it." Packaged meats and frozen
meats will be stocked.
Everything in the store will be
pre-priced. Store specials will be
in effect from Thursday to
Tuesday, not just until Saturday,
4 he says.
Ken explained that K food
stores give independent retailers
increased buying power so that
they can offer better prices and
specials: Carnival and Knechtel
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are the two K Foods "house"
brand names,. The bright orange
on the front of the new store is
called "Knechtel orange", he
said with a grin.
He said he thought there was
room for two grocery stores in
Seaforth, "Competition is good,
wouldn't want to be the only store
in a town because you get blamed
for a lot of things that aren't your
fault."
FOOD MAR
On Your
GRAND
OPENING
The'dairy cases were stocked up ready for
yesterdays opening of Roth Food Market.
Cans and packages galore line the
shelves at Seaforth's newest store .
•
On Their
We want to wish them
the best in Seaforth
BALL-MACAULAY LTD.
GRAND OPENING
Seaforth
BRIGHT NEW STORE ON MAIN ST.- The new front
of Seaforth's newest store certainly brightens up
Main St. these days. The new business is Roth's Food
Market, the 18th K food store in Ontario. It's an
indep6ndent store, owned by Ken Roth of Kitchener
and his wife Cheryl, that does volume buying from
Knechtels of Kitchener. (Staff photo)
Seaforth
on the
to
HILDEBRAND
PAINT & PAPER
Best Wishes
to
Roth
Food Market
We are happy
to have had a part
in your creation.
We wish you every
success in Seaforth .
•••••••••••W
Seaforth
Distributed in the Exeter, Centralia, Seaforth Area by .
Phone Exeter 235-2144 or Seaforth 527-0810
ROTH FOOD MARKET
We are happy to be supplying
Sealtest Dairy Products
to the new store and
wish you every success
in Seaforth.
Congratulations
Exeter Dairy Ltd.
Sealtest Distributor
to
.CONGRATULATIONS
Roth Food Market
Opening of their
New Store
We are happy to have been able
to provide all the Electrical Work.
GEO. A. SILLS & SONS