EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM ) – Over a year after being sold, the Lower Valley staple, Barron’s Superette, has officially been renamed to Valley Supermarket.
The store, which is located off of Acapulco Avenue in the Hacienda Heights area of the Lower Valley, has been home to multiple businesses, including a Big 8. But amongst the building’s multiple iterations, arguably none have been as widely known as Barron’s Superette.
“It was a community grocery store, a true neighborhood store, because we knew all our customers. And like my husband said, ‘We’re like four generations so it was like a big family,’” said co-owner Gloria Barron.
The store was primarily known for its meat market, but also as a mini super-market with multiple departments such as a bakery, tortilleria and a hot deli.
The business belonged to the Barron family for 46 years, from the time Robert Barron Sr. first bought the store in 1976 when it operated as a Mitchell’s, from his then supervisor.
Six years later, his son Robert Barron Jr. and his wife Gloria Barron bought the business from Barron Sr., when he decided to pursue other business ventures.