- Ward’s Supermarket in Gainesville has thrived for 75 years due to its family-owned legacy, personalized service, and fresh local products including homemade sausage.
- The store expanded in 1991 to NW 23rd Avenue, incorporating natural whole foods and employs 93 workers, standing as a rare family-owned grocer in Alachua County.
Well, perhaps it’s not so much a secret.
From the moment customers walk into the long brown Ward’s Supermarket building off NW 23rd Avenue in Gainesville, cashiers, managers, tea baggers, watermelon sorters and meat butchers alike greet newcomers with smiles and regulars by name.
If they don’t know your name, they’ll learn it by the time you leave…