West Frankfort Grocer Celebrates 50 Years Serving the Community

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WEST FRANKFORT, IL (Haley Elam -West Frankfort/Benton Gazette – Please click to read the full story. Here is an excerpt) Local business owner, Don McCord has faithfully served the community of West Frankfort for the past five decades. McCord said he worked at the grocery store “Sparks” beginning in 1967, before he and his wife, Sue, purchased the business and established the well-known “McCord’s Market” in 1974. Working alongside him all this time have been his wife, son, sister, nephew and daughter-in-law. “We take great pride in our store,” McCord says. This day and age competing with “big chain” businesses can sometimes be trying for a small town store. McCord confidently expresses, “Small is not always bad. It is more convenient for people to find things.”