Discount retailer Roses is opening its first store in the Chattanooga area

A Roses Express discount store is slated to open next week in Fort Oglethorpe. The store expects to hire from 25 to 30 employees. / Staff photo by Mike Pare A Roses Express discount store is slated to open next week in Fort Oglethorpe. The store expects to hire from 25 to 30 employees. / Staff photo by Mike Pare

By Mike Pare July 26, 2019 2 min read

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Discount retailer Roses is opening its first store in the Chattanooga area next week as the company tries to woo bargain shoppers.

A 22,000-square-foot Roses Express is slated to open Thursday in Fort Oglethorpe at LaFayette Highway and Cloud Springs Road at the site of a former Food Lion supermarket. Later this year, the company plans another unit in Dalton, Georgia.

Kevin Pitt, a district manager for North Carolina-based retailer, said Roses Express carries such items as clothes, health and beauty aids, and some food goods.

“It has the same prices as other discount stores here if not better,” he said.