Aaron Russell loads a customer’s car with groceries Monday at the Green Spot Superette, a small grocery store in Dalton, Ga., that will be closing its doors Tuesday and has been offering everything at 40 percent off.DALTON, Ga. – When the lights flick off and Green Spot Superette goes dark and quiet this evening, 60 years of commerce will fade into the night.
And remain there.
“It’s going to be really hard,” said Larry Green, one of the store’s owners.
On Monday, he greeted well-wishers and longtime customers, many of whom came by one last time to walk the aisles and remember days and loved ones, some long gone.
Many offered a kind word to the man who for 35 years has put in 60-plus hours a week in here, keeping customer service a priority, never giving in to demands that would warp Green Spot into being more like the big box stores.