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Depew retires after 45 years at Wellsville's Giant Food Mart
WELLSVILLE — Doug Depew has pretty much seen it all in his 45 years of employment at Giant Food Mart, from several power outages before the store had a generator to the water main break that flooded the store in January 2014. He began work in the late 1970s on the meat room clean-up crew. From there his career expanded into roles such as assistant store manager in September 1980, followed by store manager in July 1981. For several years he took on the role of operations manager, until October 2013, when he took over as the meat department manager. He took over a role as perishable manager in 2017, overseeing the meat, produce, deli and bakery departments. In his last role at the Giant Food Mart, he was general manager from 2018 until his retirement in late 2019. As someone with great knowledge of operations for the entire store, Depew was a valuable asset to its customers, Wellsville Giant Food Mart owner Mike Berardi said. “One of his famous lines would be when a customer asked where a product was located in the store, beans for example, Doug would always respond with ‘they’re in the bean aisle’ as he would walk with the customer to its location,” Berardi said.
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The owner added that customer service was always Depew’s number one priority. “You couldn’t make it past him in an aisle without him acknowledging and greeting you,” Berardi said. “He was always quick to solve customerand employee-related issues and each party was always satisfied in the end.” Berardi said Depew treated everyone equally and he was known as the “go-to guy” for special requests from customers or for co-workers seeking information or advice. “Customers and employees all had great respect for Doug as a manager and as a person,” Berardi said. The meat department crew will always remember Depew’s delicious home-cooked meals with a side of hot sauce that he would bring in for them, Berardi said. During special meat sales,
Depew would cook up things such as lasagna, shepherd’s pie, pulled pork or Italian sausage, just to name a few. Following in his father’s footsteps, Depew was very involved with the Petrolia Hose Company in his free time away from work. He enjoys spending time with his longtime companion, Judy Gatten, his four children, Danielle, Kimberly, Angela and Bryan, as well as his grandchildren. “While he will definitely be missed as part of the Giant Food Mart team, we believe that our customers will miss him even more,” Berardi said. “It’s pretty amazing the dedication Doug displayed in working for one company his entire career,” the owner added. “On behalf of the Berardi family past and present, we thank him for the decades of service to the company and our community.”
Photo by Bob Clark Catharine Young, director of the New York State Center for Excellence for Food and Agriculture at Cornell AgriTech’s campus in Geneva, speaks with an Allegany County official Wednesday evening at Moonwinks in Cuba. Young, who represented the area for 20 years in the state legislature, spoke to the county planning board’s annual dinner about the work her new organization is doing to bolster agriculture and food manufacturing in the region.
Catharine Young, in agriculture role, strives to keep helping region
By BOB CLARK
district she served — at the annual dinner of CUBA — Once a the Allegany County feature at virtually every Planning Board. board’s annual meeting, “I’m still here, I’m ribbon cutting and still around, and together special event across the we’re going to continue region, former state Sen. to do great things,” she Catharine Young took to told the capacity crowd a podium once again at that greeted her with Moonwinks. a standing ovation. “I “Driving here from think there are ways we Geneva tonight (Jan. can continue working 15), the closer I got, the together — especially in happier I got,” she said. economic development. “You see the progress, “I may not be in the work, the excitement Allegany County every happening in Allegany day like I used to be,” she County.” said, “but I’m still here as Young, now the director a resource.” of the New York State Noting that long Center for Excellence before oil, manufacturing for Food and Agriculture or tourism became at Cornell AgriTech’s players in the area’s campus in Geneva, shared economy, Young said her group’s efforts to help that agriculture was the farmers and food product occupation of the first manufacturers worldwide pioneers. — as well as the Senate Growing up on a
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