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Jerseyville Shop 'n Save Will Close If No Buyer Found

Jerseyville Shop 'n Save Will Close If No Buyer Found

JERSEYVILLE - The Shop ’n Save stores not on the Schnucks purchase list on Monday will be closed on Nov. 19 if buyers are not found. The closing will leave Jerseyville a WalMart supercenter and the one locally owned grocery store, Sinclair's.

The Jerseyville store, located where WalMart originally sited in Jerseyville, is one of the Shop ’n Save stores that will be closed, Local 655 Communications Director Collin Reischman said Wednesday afternoon. “There is federal law that requires a company like Shop ’n Save to give notice of closure 60 days in advance,” he said. “They gave us that notice on Monday.

Unfortunately Shop ’n Save had a lot of employees who found out from the news or us this was happening. We will explain to the members specifically what will happen in regard to their contract. The union’s contract is very specific about what severance pay, paid vacation and how long health care can be provided to protect these people.” Reischman said the Local 655 wishes companies overall were better to their employees. “Thank God these folks are part of a union that wants to help,” he said. “It is a shame these kinds of things happen to people. This is not their fault, it is a failure of the managers.”

Reischman said the Local 655 has a meeting set with SuperValue on Thursday to discuss issues surrounding the store closures. He said he said part of the discussions will be to see what the company will do beyond the contract for the employees.

Jerseyville Shop 'n Save Will Close If No Buyer Found
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