SEQUIM — A third supermarket, Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, is scheduled to open Aug. 13 in Sequim, the store’s co-owner said.
The store is in the process of hiring at least 20 employees and is accepting applications, Linda Hebert said Friday at the store next door to the new Ross Dress For Less.
Ross opened a week ago Saturday.
Linda Hebert said she and her husband, Mitch, sold their Grocery Outlet in Sparks, Nev., to relocate back to the Northwest. They are originally from Longview.
“This is like coming home for us,” she said. “We’re thrilled to be here in Sequim. My husband and I fought hard to get this location.”
She said they liked Sequim’s small-town atmosphere and saw it as a good place to raise their two children.
Company officials said Grocery Outlet has been trying to locate in Sequim since 2003.
All Grocery Outlet stores are independently owned by local people, Hebert said.
The Grocery Outlet on West Washington Street between Ross and Costco Warehouse is accepting applications at the store from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
While the Grocery Outlet storefront sign went up last week, shelves were still being installed inside the 17,784-square-foot store Friday.
The Ross and Grocery Outlet building is part of a new $4.5 million commercial project in Sequim Village Market Place. The structure has been under construction since early December.
Grocery Outlet, headquartered in Berkeley, Calif., has more than 130 stores — 35 of them in Washington state — and calls itself an “extreme value retailer” of food, beer, wine, toys and personal-care products.
“It’s a traditional grocery store, only at better prices,” Hebert said.
Walmart is adding a 35,577-square-foot supermarket to the west side of its existing 113,000-square-foot store off West Washington Street at Priest Road.
It will be Sequim’s fourth supermarket.
Between 40 and 45 employees were hired at Ross and another 85 are being hired for the Walmart grocery addition.
Walmart already employs about 200 in Sequim.
The Walmart grocery store project, plus a remodeling of the existing store, is valued at $3.8 million, city documents show.
The addition and remodeling will, in effect, match the Walmart megastore opened earlier this year east of Port Angeles on U.S. Highway 101 at Kolonels Way.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@peninsuladailynews.com.
