Price Chopper is a family-owned operation that is very much looking to the next generation.
Price Chopper, with 115 stores in six states, has been owned and managed by the Golub family for four generations and celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2007.
“We are working towards Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for our Warwick store,” said Mona Golub, vice president of public relations and consumer services for the grocery chain, based in Schenectady. “We have worked with Goddard Development on a few other projects, and have been very happy with the results.”
The store that will be built in Warwick is the second of many “next generation” Price Choppers the company has planned. The Golubs have already broken ground on another LEED-certified store in Albany, scheduled to open in 2009. In addition, it is constructing a new 240,000-square-foot, six-story office building in Schenectady, which will house administrative offices. In that case, the family is going for the Gold LEED certification.
“From this point on, all of our future stores are going green,” Golub said. “We have several stores planned over the next three to five years and they will be employing the latest in eco-friendly technology.” Golub sees LEED certification as a trend whose time has come for the grocery industry.
Golub”™s father Neil is company president and CEO; cousin Lewis is chairman of the board; Lewis”™ son Jerel is executive vice president and chief operating officer; Jerel”™s brother David is executive vice president of operations.
Louis Golub, the company founder and himself a greengrocer before anyone thought of green as anything but vegetables, came from Russia at the turn of the 20th century.
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