THREE BEARS.

• Position: Inside Alaska Business

Three Bears Alaska announced the grand opening this month of its newest store in Healy. "This is going to be a large and state-of-the-art grocery store and commercial complex that we're eager to launch," says Jim Kolb, Three Bears Alaska's statewide Marketing Director. "The store will be approximately 37,000 square feet in size and we anticipate hiring local residents first and foremost, with about twenty-five staff members in the winter and forty in the summer, mixed between part-time and full-time positions."

Kolb says the store will be a conventional grocery store with a "warehouse flare." The new Healy location will also house an Ace Hardware store, a full line of sporting goods (guns, hunting, fishing, camping, apparel, and hunting and fishing...