A grocery store chain based in Coconut Grove, Florida that already has a large network of locations throughout the South is making plans to build a series of new outlets in southern Arizona, with the first store opening early next year in Tucson.
Originally launched during the Great Depression as the Land O’Sun Dairies, the company became the Farm Stores in 1957 and has a unique business model: it sells groceries, primarily dairy and baked goods, only on a drive-thru basis.
With stores also clustered on the upper East coast, Farm Store’s locations typically look like small barns and feature double drive-thru lanes.
Farm Stores, which currently has around 70 outlets nationally, earlier said that it wants to build up to 600 additional stores across the country in the next decade.
The company’s westward expansion could see the building and opening of as many as 50 separate locations just in Arizona.
Those stores are typically rectangular-shaped and measure around 600 to 650 square feet.
By Garry Boulard
