UIC Partners with Local Grocers to Increase Food Security
Utqiaġvik’s village corporation is donating storage space so Alaska Commercial Co. and Kannika’s Market can stock food for a surge of winter visitors.
Utqiaġvik’s village corporation is donating storage space so Alaska Commercial Co. and Kannika’s Market can stock food for a surge of winter visitors.
Larger than the existing store, the new location features the first self-checkout stations in Kotzebue, among other advances.
Credit Union 1 is opening its fourteenth branch, to be located inside the Alaska Commercial Company store under construction in Kotzebue.
What retailers choose to stock at their remote Alaska stores—food, snowmachine or boat parts, fuel—could mean survival for residents of small villages.
Tikigaq village corporation is handing operations of the Point Hope Native Store to rural retail chain Alaska Commercial Company.