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You'll barely make it three steps inside before an employee offers to help, and Ann's is a place where it might be in your best interest to accept. Munchrath and his staff are experts on their products and will help find whatever you were looking for and then some. If you come to Ann's in search of iron supplements, for example, they can help you find iron-rich foods to pair them with as well."We want to be a one-stop-shop for everything," he says.
Ann's has served its community dutifully and opened three other locations across North Texas in the years since, outlasting decades of challenges from corporate rivals and growing pains. In the eyes of the family behind it and its regular customers, the past 40 years is a legacy worth celebrating.Oak Cliff resident Ed Vonder is a second-generation Ann's regular. He grew up within walking distance of the store, and his parents shopped there from the time he was 10 years old.
"Corporations are all about quantity, not quality," he says. "Ann's will take you basically by the hand and sit down with you, talk to you and go over your history. It's more personable."Munchrath agrees that this personal approach is the key to the store's longevity. Even as the chain has expanded, the family has tried to have one of their own present at every store, though he admits this is no longer feasible since their franchised location in Arlington opened.