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Ridley’s Family Market

1401 East 6th Street – Previously at 652 East 1st Street in former Safeway Location

Ace Hardware located at Ridley’s
U-Haul Truck & Trailer Rentals located at Ridley’s

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Ridley’s Family Market opens temporary location in Weiser.

Weiser residents received much needed relief after Ridley’s Family Market, the town’s only grocery store, suffered a roof collapse nearly two weeks ago. On Wednesday afternoon, Ridley’s opened at a temporary location just down the road.

To say the residents of Weiser have been struggling since the roof collapsed at Ridley’s Family Market a couple of weeks ago would be an understatement.

“It was devastating,” said Mark Ridley with Ridley’s Family Market. “We’ve never had anything like that happen in our small company.”

Their roof collapsed, taking down the small town’s only grocery store.

“The loss of the only grocery store for 12 to 15 miles has been tremendous,” said Weiser resident Juliann Moore. “It’s really hard.”

The only option: driving to Payette or Ontario.

“For some of our customers it’s just not possible,” said Ridley.

“Now I’m realizing, ‘Oh my gosh, we were really blessed to have our little store here,’ ” said Weiser resident Crissy Spencer. “It’s just been really hard, it’s been a struggle.”

The challenge then became reopening as soon as possible.

“When this happened a week ago on Thursday, there was no building in town that we possibly could’ve set up in,” Ridley said.

Ridley’s was able to lease this temporary location on short notice from Weiser Memorial Hospital. It was originally going to be used for offices.

“We started demolition within 24 hours to set up this store,” Ridley said.

In 13 days, they flipped the closed sign to open.

“I heard it today at work,” said Spencer. “I heard them say I think Ridley’s is opening at 2:00 and I was like yes!”

While employees are working around the clock stocking shelves, residents are stocking their pantries.

“Oh we have stocked up,” said Moore. “Oh yeah we did actually stock up quite a bit.”

With plans to rebuild at the old location, Ridley has one word to describe the reopen.

“Just very grateful,” Ridley said.

As of now, Ridley says they do not have a timeline for rebuilding. He also says they don’t know if anything inside the old store is salvageable. Officials say it’s too dangerous to go inside.

From KTVB News – February 1, 2017

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Shane McInroy, manager of the Ridley’s Family Market in Weiser, was up on the roof with 11 other people, clearing the heavy snow load, when the center of the roof gave way. “We were on the edges, starting from there, and it started going from the middle out,” McInroy said. “We retreated further to the edge. I called 911 at 11:10 a.m. Then some good Samaritans threw us some ladders, and we got down.” No one was hurt, he said.

After an overnight storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow onto an already snowy roof, McInroy closed the store at 8:30 a.m. Thursday as a precaution and called Western Roofing. “I just had a gut feeling,” he said. McInroy estimated he, two employees and nine western roofing workers were on the collapsing roof from 3 to 5 minutes before the ladders arrived. “It seemed like a lot longer,” he said.

The collapse continued into the early afternoon, he said, estimating it at 85 percent by 1 p.m. The sprinklers went off, he said, and between water damage and the collapse, the store and its merchandise are likely “a total loss,” he said. Ridley’s, is Weiser’s only grocery store and employs about 60 people, McInroy said. The next-closest grocery stores are in Ontario, Ore., and Payette. On Thursday the block was closed and all utilities cut to the building as emergency crews responded. What’s next for the store? “That’ll be up to my bosses,” McInroy said. “I hope they rebuild.”

From Idaho Statesman – January 19, 2017

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Ridley’s Family Markets

Although the company was founded in 1984 in Payson, Utah, it subsequently moved its headquarters to Boise, Idaho, and then Jerome. As of 2017, Ridley’s operates 31 supermarkets in Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming, as well as two stand alone pharmacies. It also has a retail support center in Twin Falls, Idaho. In 2015, it was ranked as the 21st largest private company in Idaho. As of August 2017, the company’s leadership was Donald Mark Ridley (President), Jerry Lee Ridley (Director), and Constance Fay Ridley (Secretary).

In 1984, Jerry and Connie Ridley opened an 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m²) grocery store in Payson, Utah. Ridley’s first operated as an IGA franchise called Ridley’s IGA Foodliner.

In 1986, the couple sold the Payson store and began a partnership to build and operate a Food 4 Less store in Provo, Utah.

In 1988, after grocery retailer Farmer Jack closed their stores in Idaho and Utah, the Ridleys decided to sell their share of the Food 4 Less store to acquire three former Farmer Jack stores in Idaho. Ridley’s Food Corporation was incorporated that same year as a privately held company with its headquarters in Boise, Idaho.

Throughout the 1990s, Ridley’s began acquiring several grocery stores in Idaho, including two Smith’s Food and Drug stores in Boise (1992) and two Sprouse-Reitz stores in Emmett and McCall (1994). Each of these four stores were eventually closed or relocated. In 2004, the first Ridley’s Family Markets store in Utah was opened in the city of Tremonton. In 2007, Ridley’s ranked as the 36th largest private company in Idaho.

The retailer’s first stores in Nevada (Ely) and Wyoming (Pinedale) opened in 2007 and 2008, respectively. As of 2008, Ridley’s had 15 stores and 600 employees.

Between 2008 and 2010, Ridley’s acquired three Albertsons stores in Blackfoot, Idaho and Orem, Utah.

Following the purchase of three pharmacies in Idaho and Nevada, Ridley’s opened the first free-standing pharmacies in the company’s history in 2010.

In August 2011 Ridley’s Family Markets. Inc. was incorporated in Wyoming. On December 20, 2014, it was announced that Ridley’s would be buying four grocery stores in Wyoming: two Safeway stores in Casper, one Safeway in Sheridan, and an Albertson’s store in Laramie. The stores were being sold by Associated Food Stores, a grocery wholesaler and co-op that facilitates such deals. At the time, Ridley’s had 24 stores and approximately 2,000 employees.

In July 2015, Ridley’s announced the purchase of a Harmons grocery store in Ogden, Utah, soon to become a new Ridley’s location (although its sign read ‘Wangsgards, a Ridley’s Family Market). In December 2015, the two then existing companies (Ridley’s Food Corporation and Ridley’s Family Markets, Inc.) were merged, with later being the surviving and current company.

Since the late 1990s, Ridley’s has been supplied by Associated Food Stores. The company was previously supplied by Fleming Foods.

In 2015, Ridley’s Family Markets was listed as the 21st largest private business headquartered in Idaho.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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