Assistant manager at Coborn's is retiring
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HURON — In 1978, an energetic high schooler applied for a job as a grocery bagger at what was then Randall’s Grocery Store.
This Saturday, 40 years later, Coborn’s assistant manager Jeff Houge, that energetic teenager, will bid farewell to the only job he’s ever had. There will be an open house retirement party for Houge, from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, for anyone who wants to come and say goodbye.
“Forty years,” Houge said earlier this week. “I’ve been the assistant manager for the past 25 years, but I really wanted the challenge of doing something new and different.”
Houge will become the new operations manager for Dak Pak, the nutritional supplement company headquartered in Woonsocket. “I’m 56 years old,” Houge said. “I wanted to prove to myself that I could do something different.”
Through his high school years, Houge was a bagger, and a stocker/checker for the Randall’s store, which was located in the building that Lewis Drug now occupies.