Edwards Food Giant

Edwards Food Giant

Edwards Food Giant’s management team includes, from left: Ron Davis, Gary Proffitt, Steve Edwards and Paul Rowton.

Edwards Food Giant

The recipe kiosk

Edwards Food Giant

Edwards Food Giant

In-store bak­ery that includes items like banana nut bread, snowflake rolls and focac­cia bread.

Edwards Food Giant

Edwards Food Giant

The depart­ment spe­cial­izes in local pro­duce.

Edwards Food Giant

The pro­duce depart­ment is set off by a col­or­ful farm­ers market-themed mural cre­ated by artists com­mis­sioned by Kansas City, Kan.-based Asso­ci­ated Whole­sale Gro­cers (AWG), Edwards Food Giant’s whole­saler and store archi­tect.

Edwards Food Giant

Edwards Food Giant

Market Fresh Deli meals

Edwards Food Giant

Ready-to-cook meals

Edwards Food Giant

“That smoker has been a great addi­tion because many gro­cery stores don’t have one,” says Cleo Robin­son, deli/bakery man­ager and exec­u­tive chef.

Edwards Food Giant

Part of the company’s “Got what you need Gro­cery Store” cam­paign, cus­tomers sim­ply fill out a card request­ing an item that the store does not carry and hand it to a cashier. The store direc­tor and buy­ers then try to obtain the item and notify the cus­tomer when it is in stock.

Edwards Food Giant

For $4.99 per pound the salad bar includes fix­ings like diced turkey and ham, shred­ded Sea Legs, sea­soned corn, hard boiled eggs, ambrosia, home­made pick­les and banana cream pie.

Edwards Food Giant

The self-service cheese island fea­tures more than 100 vari­eties of imported and domes­tic cheeses.

Edwards Food Giant

The self-service cheese island includes an easy-to-use binder that allows cus­tomers to look up the per­fect cheese for any occasion.

Edwards Food Giant

The store prides itself on its selec­tion of dry grocery — it fea­tures a canned goods sec­tion sec­ond to none in Lit­tle Rock.

Edwards Food Giant

Edwards Food Giant

The store features three aisles of frozen foods.

Edwards Food Giant

The store does a good job with beer, largely thanks to the “Pick Any 6 Beer Bot­tles for $8.99” sec­tion of the case.

Edwards Food Giant

Local wines are a big seller.

Edwards Food Giant

Local wines

Edwards Food Giant

Edwards Food Giant

One of the most pop­u­lar offer­ings in the meat case is the home­made Mar­ket Made Sausage.

Edwards Food Giant

Edwards is developing a reputation as the place to go for seafood.