Molly Talbot-Metz wanted so badly for it to work – a name grocery store bringing name brands to a blighted end of town, where supermarket options nearly all of this century have been either generic products or nothing.
Ruth Littlejohn wanted it just as badly.
James Talley misses the place already.
Ken Kolb is not surprised it didn’t work.
When Piggly Wiggly opened its Spartanburg location in August of 2022, there was ample reason to be hopeful. The City of Spartanburg and the Mary Black Foundation (MBF) had joined to put $900,000 into the supermarket. The neighbors had been clamoring for a place to shop where a Save A Lot store had once stood in South Church Plaza – itself a respite from the three-to-five-mile trips to the nearest Ingles, Food Lion, or Walmart stores that are variably serviced by city bus routes.
Thirteen months later,…
