Old Sevier Market, the grocery store on Sevier Avenue, opens Saturday
South Knoxville gets a neighborhood grocery. The store the district has been counting down to opens its doors October 10, and for its first month fifteen percent of every purchase buys food for people in Knoxville who need it.
- When
- Sat Oct 10 · grand opening
- Hours
- 7 AM – 7 PM, the hours the store lists for every day
- Where
- Old Sevier Market · Sevier Ave, in the Old Sevier District
- The first month
- 15% of every purchase funds food donations in Knoxville · a $100 trip pays for $15 of food
- On the shelves
- Produce, dairy and frozen, baking and school supplies, local artisan honey, the basics and the novelties
- Weather
- Partly sunny and 82 Saturday · a slight chance of a shower after 2 PM
Sevier Avenue has restaurants, breweries, a bakery, a theater and, as of last Friday, a music venue. What it has not had is a place to buy an onion. That changes Saturday, when Old Sevier Market opens for the first time. The store has been posting a countdown since October 1, and the Old Sevier District put the opening at the top of its October can't-miss list, calling it long-awaited.
What's on the shelves
The owners describe the mission in three words, procure, curate, create, and the plan in plainer ones: fresh, good groceries at prices the neighborhood can pay, with the basics you need and the novelties you want. The posts from inside the store this month show the produce islands going in, a home for potatoes, onions and apples, shelves stocked with baking and school supplies, and dairy and frozen cases filled. The store says its range will run from the lettuce in your salad to local artisan honey for your latte. It is a member of the Old Sevier merchants' group and says it will work with the district's other businesses and with local artists and farmers.
The first month gives back
For the first month the store is open, fifteen percent of every purchase goes toward food for people in Knoxville who need it. The store's own example: a hundred-dollar grocery trip funds fifteen dollars of donated food. Opening day is Saturday, the listed hours are seven in the morning to seven at night, and the forecast is partly sunny and 82, with only a slight chance of a shower in the afternoon.
