Sanchez Feed and Seed Inc. closing its doors after more than 50 years as owner plans to retire

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- After much than fractional a century, the owners of the award-winning Sanchez Feed and Seed Incorporated successful Kings County are taking a measurement back.

Local customers and the owner, Greg Sanchez, shared that they volition decidedly miss the provender store not lone due to the fact that of the products it offers but besides the assemblage built wrong it.

Greg recalls, "We utilized to person an yearly chick day. Every twelvemonth successful April, we gave distant escaped chicks. My girl Megan, my niece Tess, my lad Derek and that is my woman Charlie Chicken," arsenic helium looked done much than 50 years of memories.

Greg reflects connected the decades helium has spent moving Hanford's largest locally owned provender store, Sanchez Feed and Seed Incorporated.

"It's been fun. I emotion the acquisition of gathering bully people, I see my customers bully friends,' expressed Greg.

He is gearing up to retire, which means the household concern volition present adjacent its doors.

The determination was hard owed to the past wrong the 4 walls.

Greg's dada and uncle opened the store successful 1974, past Greg took implicit arsenic an adult.

Having precocious mislaid his parents, Greg says it's clip to instrumentality a break.

"We're not getting immoderate younger truthful I person to walk much clip with them and make much memories with the family," explains Greg.

Customers accidental they volition miss seeing the acquainted faces and life-long friends made astatine the section shop.

The quality of it closing is pugnacious for regulars, but they understand.

"When my woman told maine astir it, it wounded me. But I besides had a concern arsenic well. I owned a dairy for 60 years and that 1 closed but I ne'er stopped working, truthful I deliberation Greg and Barbara are going to beryllium the same," says Gus Duarte, who has been a lawsuit for much than 50 years.

Greg plans to enactment engaged successful the assemblage and appreciates each the lawsuit enactment implicit the years.

"I privation to convey them precise overmuch for each the concern we had and for the friendships we made passim the years," says Greg.

The household says they are precise grateful for the past 50 years and invitation radical to plaything by 1 past time.

The store's past time volition beryllium December 19.

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