Rouses Markets opens tomorrow in Sugar Mill Pond, bringing the Thibodaux-based, family-owned company’s total number of locations in Mississippi and Louisiana to 35. The 62,000-square-foot Youngsville store is Rouses' first location in Acadiana.
“We have designed this store specifically for Acadiana,” says Managing Partner Donald Rouse. “As a Louisiana company, we believe in buying local. We’re buying seafood straight from the boats, produce direct from Acadiana farmers, and of course we’ll have all of the Louisiana-made products people in Acadiana know and love. I also think people will respond very favorably to our everyday low prices,” he continues. Rouse says in the past 50 years, the company has built trusted relationships with its vendors, allowing it to bring in high quality products at low prices.
Rouses new market features a unique, open layout, with the ability to get in and out quickly. It has a full-service butcher shop with hand-cut meats and dry-aged USDA Choice Angus beef, a seafood market specializing in Louisiana seafood and more than 1,000 varieties of fresh local, seasonal and organic produce.
After only a year in New Orleans, Rouses was voted the 2008 "Best Supermarket" by readers of The Gambit. The paper noted: "Since taking over operations at several Sav-a-Center locations last
year, Rouses has impressed locals with its high-quality service and
selection of meat, cheese and breads. Louisiana owned, Rouses also
carries a wide selection of ethnic and organic food, wine and spirits
and gifts and flowers. It also offers weekly specials and a tasty
selection of prepared foods for those on the go."
Also, Rouses is apparently not only a cool place to shop, but also to work.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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