Grocery Carts:
IPT Brand carts are made from recycled plastics.
Cardboard: Like most stores, we recycle cardboard.
Pallets: a
pallet is the wood or plastic base that the food and equipment arrive on. The plastic pallets are returned to the delivery company. The wood pallets are exchanged with the drivers or picked up by a pallet
recycle company.
Building Materials: If you look around the store, you can spot a variety of items we have "recycled".
* Wine Department - venture deep into the wine department. You will find a nice collection of lay down wines. Look at the base the bottles are displayed. The wood surrounding the base is made from old delivery boxes. The bumper on the front of the display was old chair rails. the holder the bottles are laying in... same chair rail flipped over. Now look at the wine cellar. The brick wall was part of an old factory in Hamilton, Ohio. The wood upright display, by the award winning port o let bathrooms, used to be tractor trailer floors. :) The port o lets are made from recycled plastic. The fencing around the beer and wine registers are recycled.
* Riedel Glass display: Old building beams and sliding glass doors....
* Cigar Humidor: The windows and doors came from the old Performance Honda offices. The wood beams, same building the bricks came from.
* Liquor Store: The glass display counters are from Kings Island.
* Party Sign: Old Party City Stores sign.
* Cheese Shop: Every refrigerated Display case was recycled from another store. Completely restored, painted and cleaned for use in our store. The service cases in the cheese shop are from the old Cincinnati Dayton Road Thriftway.
* Deli: Same as the cheese shop. Every case was purchased from another store. The Boar's Head truck above the Deli was reconditioned and mounted above the deli.
* Olive Bar: Every case has been used outside of our store and restored. The beams are from the historic building mentioned above.
* Registers: Every check stand was a recycle from another grocery store. A little work, a little paint and we have nice functional check stands.
* Elvis: Elvis was retired from a famous pizzaria. Jungle brought him out of retirement to entertain thousands and thousand of guests a week. (make sure you make a collectable penny while singing along with Elvis)
* The U.S.S. Minnow: Yes, the big boat in Seafood. What a gem! Jungle found her in Florida sitting in a bog with no hope of sailing the high seas. Jungle purchased her and moved her north to our store. The expansion in 1992 was built around the Minnow. The boat is now our seafood managers office, the sound system for all the animatronics.
* Jasmin: Bricks, beams, and some fixtures are recycled. If you look at the glass display holders, you will notice all the metal pieces and if you look really close, you will notice the glass shelves are old windows.
* Outside of Jasmin: Bricks and cobblestone. The cobblestone was once a road in downtown Cincinnati (Now called Pete Rose Way)
* Kraft Nascar Car above entrance: from the movie "Days of Thunder" Yes, we have all the cars in storage for something... someday. :)
* On the outside of the greenhouse and other portions of the entrance. Wood blocks are installed like bricks. The blocks were guardrail blocks. The state of Tennessee changed the specs for the transition block. When you build guardrails you have the post that goes in the ground. At the top left side of the post you install the transition block and the guardrail on the outside. A bolt goes through the metal rail, transition block, post and secured with a large galvanized nut. We used the transition blocks throughout the building.
* The two "Shade Screens" outside of the greenhouse are recycled from downtown Cincinnati. They were the Metro bus stops in downtown Cincinnati.
* The little "house" on the outside of Shasta was Tupperware trade show piece.
* Inside Shasta the walls on the left side. If you look closesly, the wood is about 3 inches in width. The wood from the original building was saved for years. We recycled it into this shop. The carpenters added beautiful features with the wood. look for the wonderful designs.
* The drop ceiling (orange) was old pallet racking.
* The gift basket order station was International Paper's trade show equipment.
* The Changing room is 100% recycle... Check out the shower head. LOL.
* The jewelry case... an old deli case. Ice cold jewelry and diamonds. LOL.
* The curved brown display case against the back wall was another recycled piece from International Paper.
* a lot of the display fixtures are antiques folks have donated over the years. Some of the tables and benches are from Kings Island. (remember the pizza and food building on the left when you enter the park?)
* The cart corrals (with green roof, we have 3) were built with beams from another old building. No worries, they were supplemented with Steel and sprinklers.
* Wood barrel trash cans: old whiskey barrels.
* The water scene was created with recycled products and recycled plastic animals. (the ducks are real)
Pre Heat Water: unlike most stores, we
pre-heat the water before it enters the hot water tanks. Tim
Carrigann deserves credit for this. Tim was our plumber who also ran a dairy farm. In the dairy industry they recovered heat by using
Mueller Free Heaters. Tim connected our compressors (refrigeration) to the
pre-heaters. Thus, preheating the cold water prior hitting the hot water tanks. I ran into the
Meuller folks at a trade show recently and found out they are integrating their products into the grocery industry. We were twenty years ahead of the industry. Good Job Tim.
I will update this posting periodically.
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