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Eagleville Grocery To Open Soon
 New store owners, Ryan and Brad Perryman |
By Glenda Dyer
The late Alan Perryman’s two sons are in the process of buying Henry & Al’s grocery store business in Eagleville, according to their mother.
The transaction is expected to close on Sept. 6 and the sons, Brad and Ryan Perryman, hope to have the grocery store reopened by the first of October, their mother, Jacque Perryman Dospil, said last week.
The business has been up for sale over the past several months and has been closed for about a month.
The Perrymans were co-owners of the grocery business with Henry Ghee from 1999 to 2004. Alan Perryman died in 2002, and Ghee bought the Perrymans’ half of the store in 2004 from Jacque Perryman, who remarried about a month ago.
Dospil said she and her sons all have experience in the grocery store field.
"Alan worked in grocery stores for 30 something years so I knew a lot of the business end through him," she said. "And I kept the books when Al and Henry opened the store."
Son Brad, who is now 31 years old, worked at the grocery store with his father throughout his high school and college years and worked with Ghee for two years after his father died. Ryan, who is now 25, also worked with his father while he was in high school.
"We don’t know all about it but we think we know enough to get it going," Dospil said.
Plans for now are for Brad to manage the store but all the family is expected to help out. Both brothers now have other jobs. Brad works at the Holt company in Eagleville, and Ryan works in the computer field as a disaster recovery engineer at RenTech in the Cool Springs area.
The Eagleville store will remain a Food Value store but will be renamed the Eagleville Grocery.
"Plans are to have everything we had when we owned it and in fact we may try to add a little more," Dospil said. "Alan was big on good meat with him being a butcher so we want to get back to having good fresh meat and good fresh produce."
She said her family wants to have just a "real friendly" hometown grocery.
"So many people have come up to me and said it will be so good to have a grocery in town again and hopefully they will shop with us," she said.
The store will need about three or four full-time workers and lots of part-time employees, Dospil predicts. Notices about hiring and announcing the store’s reopening will be posted in the next few weeks, she said.
Leon Puckett, who operated the grocery store in Eagleville from 1954 to 1999, still owns the store building. He sold the grocery business, which was first known as Puckett Brothers, to the Perrymans and Ghees in 1999. Leon is the fourth generation of Pucketts in the grocery business.
Dospil says her sons are planning on being in the grocery business a long time.
"I guess they have it in their blood because of their daddy," she said. "They are young, enthusiastic and have a lot of energy and are really excited about it."