April 2, 2006
Join our team!
In anticipation of our grand opening, Wheeler
Brothers is looking to build a great team! Wheeler Brothers
is a re-creation of an old-time General Store, located in
the building that the original Wheeler Brothers Store operated
in from 1880 until 1968. We specialize in organic, all-natural,
and local products as well as high-quality meats and cheese,
prepared food, hardware, textiles and lots more!
We're looking for friendly energetic people
that can be part of the essence of Wheeler Brothers, not just
the 'guy at the register'. That means knowing the products,
knowing the customers, and knowing how to make people feel
special. We're hoping to find you out there, and are willing
to compensate generously for your commitment to our vision.
Read more about our open positions for full-time
assistant store manager and part-time sales associates below.
If you're interested in one of these positions, please call
us at 978-928-3731 or email us at info@wheelerstore.com.
If emailing, please tell us why you'd like to work at Wheeler
Brothers, any relevant experience or skills you have, what
hours you are available and how much you would like to earn.
Also include how we can contact you and how
you heard about us. Thanks!
Assistant Store Manager
The Assistant Store Manager will share the daily operational
duties with the Store Manager/Owner, to include: Opening/Closing
of store, sales reporting, inventory control, overseeing a
foodservice area and scheduling/managing of other staff. Must
have or be able to obtain Massachusetts Food Protection Manager
Certification. Hours and shifts will vary with some flexibility
for both of us expected.
Sales Associates
Sales Associates will have responsibility for greeting customers,
register sales, handling customer requests, addressing concerns,
inventory control and possibly working in foodservice area.
Must be friendly, outgoing, and able to learn details of many
of the products we will sell.
June 23, 2005
We've moved in!
After weeks of battling the wide pine floors,
the final coat of polyurethane set up and the moving trucks
pulled up to One Main Street on June 9th. We are thrilled
to be in Hubbardston as a family and continue to be welcomed
by our new community!
Major work continues to take place in the store
and finish work remains upstairs (just a few missing closet
poles and bedroom doors!). Big projects this summer include
replacing the floor in the stock room (see photos of circa
1845 pine beams), finishing up the electrical work in the
store, painting the shelves, building and buying display cases,
swimming in Comet pond and last but not least ordering stock
in time for the long awaited grand re-opening!
January 3, 2005
Construction update and Happy Holidays!
Well its Christmas time and a lot of progress
has been made. Not enough to get us actually OPEN, you understand,
but a lot closer. The pictures show the new front windows
of the store, restored to how they appeared around from about
1890 until probably the 1940's.
We're working on the store interior as well, and the living
space upstairs is coming along nicely. All the plaster work
has been completed, and we're installing interior trim around
the windows and doors that were salvaged from the Richardson
house on Main St. and stripped down to bare wood. They're
beautiful! The dining room has had wainscotting installed
that comes from boards salvaged from the interior of the building
during demolition. We found a bunch of boards that were hand-planed,
had them stripped, and reused them. This might make the second
time they have been reused, since hand-planing was generally
done in an earlier period than when we know the living space
and the store were last renovated (around 1900).
Hopefully we'll be moving in sometime in February, and the
store may partially open at the same time. Thanks to everyone
for your patience during this process, and we'll see you all
soon.
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May 7, 2004
Construction update
All this winter and spring, work has continued at the store.
The framing on the upstairs apartment is completed, a new
stairway to the attic is going in, and a lot of wiring has
been completed, including new service to the building. The
new heating system is in and is a perfect blend of old and
new, with a German–built Buderus boiler, controlled
by a computer, feeding hot water through a new type of high-strength,
flexible plastic tubing called Pex. The tubing is connects
to turn-of-the-century radiators scrounged from different
locations and refitted to accept hot water instead of steam.
You may have also noticed the digging around the foundation,
which was the installation of some perimeter drainage pipe,
to try and channel water away from the front foundation of
the store. Unfortunately the trench was dug just in time for
the torrential rains we had a few weeks ago, so things got
worse before they got better, but it does seem to be working.
The attic is also being transformed, with insulation being
installed, kneewalls to be built, a floor to replace, and
a bathroom added as well. This will be our ‘master suite’
when we get done, and we’re looking forward to it!
We’ll soon be starting on the rest of the exterior,
continuing the scraping and painting that we started last
year, and also getting rid of those vines growing up the side
of the Clark house, which was an easy concession to make to
the Planning Board!
Look for more activity soon, and call or email
if you’d like to volunteer sometime!
John
Here are some pictures from what's been going on
at the store! |
