Harps Acquires Beachler’s Hometown Market in Oklahoma

March 21, 2023 Nayely Palafox, KFSM

Springdale-based Harps Food Stores, Inc., has announced its purchase agreement to acquire Beachler’s Hometown Market, an independent, long-standing grocery retailer in Prague, Okla. 

Loy family selling The Markets to Harps Food Stores, based in Arkansas

Barry Loy started punching a time clock at The Big Star on the bypass in Natchez when he was about 15. However, he had worked in the store for his father for years before that.

Harps, Healthy Family Project and the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank Celebrate 2021 Donation

Harps Food Stores kicked off their 2022 Produce for Kids cause marketing campaign with a donation check celebrating the success of the 2021 campaign, which provided 80,000 *meals to four Feeding America® food banks in the Harps market area. The Harps campaign is part of the larger Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) Springfield Division campaign; including Pyramid Foods, Town & Country Inc, Woods Supermarkets, and G&W Foods Inc.; which has benefitted Feeding America® food banks in Arkansas and Missouri with 890,000 meals since 2017.