The Gila River Indian Community has long relied on convenience stores to feed its more than 13,000 residents — who otherwise may have to drive as far as half an hour away to neighboring cities with grocery stores, like Maricopa, Coolidge, Casa Grande or even the Valley. But now, a new market just opened on Thursday much closer to home.
“This isn’t a Bashas. It’s not a Safeway or a Walmart,” said Duncan Winston, general manager of Gila River Development. “We don’t have hundreds of stores that we can leverage to offer the same price point they can.”
The grand opening of Sacaton Market has been a decade in the making…