Fareway Stores, Inc. is a large Midwest grocer dedicated to providing the freshest in produce, meats and other grocery items. Fareway was created out of a need for fairness, honesty and customer dedication and still today remains focused on holding family values in the highest regard and treating their customers, employees and vendors as family. The company prides itself on having the sames values as the people it serves, hard-working and family oriented.
History
Paul S. Beckwith, after working in the meat department of several grocery chains for years, noticed a shift from focus on customer service to financial and economical motives. Wanting to take grocery shopping back to how he knew it, Beckwith partnered with Fred E. Vitt, creating a market to keep employees happy and customers happy. He was named Vice President of the Fareway operation and manager of the Boone store. Due to the Boone store success, the company rapidly opened a headquarters and five more stores.
Fareway means a wide range of stock of foods, “fare” meaning food. Another meaning to the name is based on fairness, properly compensating employees so that their service is up to par with the prices, ensuring the happiness of everyone involved. Fareway is one of the largest employers in Iowa, and has expanded stores across the Midwest including Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota.
Stats
Headquarters: Boone, Iowa
No. of Stores: 100 +
No. of Employees: 5,000
Private, Retail
Important Links
Corporate Homepage
Weekly Ad
Store Locator
Employment
Contact
Considering moving to MO. Will you ever start opening stores in MO? Need one in Jefferson City, Mo.
I don’t want to have to drive back to IA for Fareway’ produce or meat! Love the MEAT! Thanks
I tried to contact you on your web site but kept getting an error in the “notification” field(whatever that is). I think it is unfortunate that you can’t be specific about errors when someone wants to complain. My comment was about products being discontinued at the 3619 Stang Store. Just a few include potato salad (Mrs. Gerry’s original), Oatmeal Crisp Raison and Raison Cinnamon English Muffins. Thankfully, two of those three are available at HyVee.
Verne T.
The ads that are showing up for this week are last weeks ads. While looking for the ads this morning that is all I got and when the new ads were mailed to me via email it was still last weeks ad. This is the first site that showed the new ad.