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Darling's Homemade
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The Darling family
thank you for
your support
over the past
quarter century!
It would be difficult to estimate how many hundreds of
thousands of tons of groceries have been purchased' from
Darling's over the last 25 years.
Fred Darling has seen his grocery and meat business grow
from the small Rivers market (located in one half of the pre-
sent Hopper-Hockey Furniture store) to the largest family-
owned food retailing business in the county.
Fred served Exeter and area shoppers from his original
location from 1946 to 1959 when his growing number of
customers forced him to move to his present location which
was larger and allowed him_ to offer better service and
selection.
In 1962 Darling's opened their store in Lucan, Two years
later the Exeter store was expanded to its present size.
Meanwhile, business kept growing especially with the de-
mand for Darling's meats and in 1969 a third store opened
under the Darling sign in Huron Park.
The Darling involvement in serving area residents did not
stop with three stores. In 1973 an abattoir was opened in
Exeter and two years, later a feed lot, located on Huron St.,
was purchased. In fact, meat has been a large part of the
success of the Darling operation. The reputation earned for
selling quality beef and pork is a point of pride for Fred.
Freezer orders are filled to your specifications and are
backed with a money-back guarantee.
Three years ago the Lucan IGA was expanded and totally
renovated to efficiently serve the large number of shoppers
from that area.
Although there will probably be several more chapters yet
to be written in the Darling story, it's easy to, pick the main
theme that has been Fred's guideline‘ for operating a
successful business... "Involve the entire family to personally
ensure each customer can depend on good selection, ef-
ficient, friendly service and competitive prices."