For the past 49 years, one establishment in particular has been making you feel at home in Salamanca, and Joel Talbot has been a huge force driving that feeling.
“I want to make everyone feel like family … We really do have a family atmosphere here,” said Talbot, store manager of Parkview Supermarket.
A life-long resident of Salamanca, Talbot has worked for Parkview for over 37 years. At 17 years old, Talbot started out in the meat department and became the meat manager for 34 years, eventually moving up to store manager for a little over a year now.
“(Parkview) has been my life for all these years,” Talbot said. “It’s been a dream of mine to take over the store … it’s all part of me.”
In 1962 Bert Simmons and Ralph Ward opened Parkview Supermarket together. Simmons and Ward were both individual owners in Salamanca, but decided to create a venture together, thus creating Parkview Supermarket. Now, the supermarket is owned by Olean Wholesale, which owns four other stores and supplies numerous others.
Since then, Parkview has always been located at 545 Broad St., but has since expanded four times. To put it into perspective, Parkview Supermarket is twice as large as the Tops located in Ellicottville.
Talbot said that Parkview Supermarket is a full-service store with carryout, a meat department and deli, a produce section and a full bakery. It even carries ammunition and soon will be getting hunting and fishing licenses.
“You name it, we do it!” Talbot said. “We brought in a lot of things to make everybody happy.”
One thing that makes everybody happy is Parkview Supermarket’s king-sized donut, which is at least six inches high, Talbot said. The king-sized donut is a unique signature of Parkview.
However, that is not all they do. Besides baking donuts, the bakery makes cookies, muffins, rolls, graduation cakes and other special occasion cakes – everything fresh!
The store is open everyday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., including the bakery and deli.
New this year, the supermarket will be opening a farmer’s market right in its parking lot from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. In just two to three short weeks the farmer’s market portion of Parkview Supermarket will be open to public.
According to Talbot, this is just another way for Parkview to make everybody feel at home.
“We do everything for our customers …that’s why we’re still here,” Talbot said. “Whatever they want, we try to go out and get it if we don’t have it.”
The best part about the Parkview Talbot said is all they have to offer: “if you want full service, you’ve got to come here – we have anything and everything!”
So if you’re looking for a place to shop that has everything, stop by the Salamanca staple, Parkview Supermarket for all your needs.
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