{"id":3729,"date":"2012-09-11T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2012-09-11T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:12:07","slug":"pamida-to-shopko-conversion-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3729","title":{"rendered":"Pamida, To Shopko Conversion To Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shopko1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3754\" title=\"shopko\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shopko1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 11, 2012) &#8212; Officials with Shopko announced Tuesday that the liquidation sale has ended and the store conversion process, at the Valley City Paminda to Shopko Hometown begins next week.<\/p>\n<p>During the conversion, the store will remain open and will take five to six weeks to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the store\u2019s three primary departments will be converted, one department at a time, with each department opening to shoppers as soon as it\u2019s completed.<\/p>\n<p>The first department to be converted is Consumables, including health and beauty, over the counter candy, beverages and snacks.<\/p>\n<p>The department will open to the public by September 23<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say, new look of Shopko Hometown will include new interior and exterior signage, carpet, paint, updated and supplement fixtures and lighting and a new easy to shop store layout.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Jones, Shopko President, Chairman and CEO, says since the merger with Pamida early this year, 45 Pamida stores have been converted to the Shopko Hometown format.<\/p>\n<p>He adds, &#8220;The response from our customers has been overwhelmingly positive and we are thrilled to be just weeks away from introducing this retail concept to Valley City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shopko is investing approximately $80 million into Pamida store conversions which occur in phases through the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Shopko is owned by affiliates of Sun Capital Partners, Inc., a leading private investment firm focused on leverage buyouts, equity, debt, and other investments in market-leading companies.<\/p>\n<p>Shopko was founded in 1962 and headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopko.com\">www.shopko.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>file photo &#8211; CSi &#8211; Matt Sheppard<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 11, 2012) &#8212; Officials with Shopko announced Tuesday that the liquidation sale has ended and the store conversion process, at the Valley City Paminda to Shopko Hometown begins next week. During the conversion, the store will remain open and will take five to six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}