Green Top Grocery tabs Christa Kramer as next General Manager

Posted on July 23, 2018

By Blake Haas

BLOOMINGTON – With more than 1850 owners in the Twin Cities, Green Top Grocery has a new General Manager to aid in bringing in locally grown products to shoppers across central Illinois.

Green Top Grocery’s Board of Directors announced Christa Kramer will serve as Green Top’s new General Manager.

“I have a lot of grocery experience in the last eight years. I have been working in multiple levels in management and buyer positions with Whole Foods market,” said the newly hired General Manager Christa Kramer. “I have a very well rounded customer service base as well as product knowledge and also more of the retail standard as well for groceries.”

Located at 921 E. Washington St. midway between Washington Elementary School and Beer Nuts, Green Top Grocery puts an emphasis on selling local grown products within 100 miles of the store.

“Green Top is just an amazing community platform that is really starting to be utilized by the community as well as well as the ownership that surrounds Green Top,” added Kramer. “It’s support of local products [and] local organizations has been just amazing to see. Now with me being so new I’m kind of seeing this from an outside perspective and [I’m] just now starting to get a more inside view and it is just really a gem for the community. It is really nice to see it kind of evolve right in front of my eyes. I just think it is an amazing platform for the community.”

Since Green Top is owned by 1850 people, ownership is not required to shop at the store.

“Green Top is open to everyone. Green Top is an everyone community store. Probably one of the biggest misconceptions is that we are an only owner store from my understanding of the community. I have a lot of friends that are just so excited that they have a store that is so close that everyone can go too. Green Top is one of the unsung gems in this area and I am really excited to see more of the community coming out and supporting such a great little gem here. We are really looking forward to really supporting our community and we really want to bring the community to Green Top so we are defiantly planning events in the future.”

Green Top which is a full-service grocery store is open to the public from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. daily.

Blake Haas can be reached at [email protected].

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