Fresh Pride Closes Onley Store

What a surprise!!  Hope employees got some type of notice.

Fresh Pride has closed its supermarket at Four Corner Plaza.

Customers arriving to shop on Monday found the doors locked and notes thanking customers for their business over the years and inviting them to shop at Fresh Pride in Exmore and Parksley.

 It isnt known if any of the employees at Onley were transferred and how many jobs were lost. The Eastern Shore Fresh Pride chain started over 40 years ago as Meatland Supermarkets and at one time had stores as far North as Harrington Deleware and Cambridge Maryland.

The chain was sold several years ago to Camellia Stores in Norfolk which also operates Be Lo stores in the Tidewater area. The Onley store faced strong competition from Food Lion and then Wal Mart.

The stores in Exmore, Parksley and Chincoteague remain open for business.

Source;  shoredailynews.com