By Greg Halbleib

BLOOMINGTON – The man currently in charge of Green Top Grocery says he’s trying to put the cooperative store higher on the local food chain.

Green Top has said sales were lower than expected during the Bloomington store’s first year. Interim Green Top CEO Tim Sullivan said he’s tweaking overall operations.

“We’ll have a complete new decor package inside the store. We’re doing a complete makeover,” Sullivan told WJBC’s Sam Wood. “There’s lots of operational things, like how we merchandise the store and taking a look at pricing in the store.”

Sullivan also says he wants to make the East Washington Street location look more like a grocery store.

Sullivan said the store specializes in organic goods from local and regional providers and profit is not the first motivation behind the cooperative facility, although he is trying to improve the E. Washington St. store’s performance as it marks one year in business this week.

Greg Halbleib can be reached at [email protected].