Fareway Values
All Fareway employees strive to uphold our company values each and every day:
Providing fresh, high quality meat and produce
Treating our customers like family and taking pride in delighting them with:
- Remarkably clean stores
- Personalized service
- Efficient shopping and checkout
- Low, competitive prices
Valuing our dedicated employees beyond measure and firmly believing they are the reason for our success
Supporting and partnering with local businesses, communities and farmers
Donating time and resources to charitable organizations both large and small
Caring about the health of our planet and use eco-friendly practices at our stores
Holding family values in the highest regard
Demonstrating integrity, fairness and honesty in our relationships with customers, employees, vendors and suppliers
The value of a day of rest
Fareway's policy of closing on Sunday has been in place for as long as our company has been in existence. In this go-go-go 24/7 world, many of our customers have asked why we continue to do so.
The idea of resting on Sunday is something in which our founder, Paul S. Beckwith, firmly believed-in part because of his religious beliefs, in part because of a story told to him by his father.
Paul's father was a pioneer who traveled to the new territory by wagon train. Some of the pioneers were in a great hurry so they drove on every day, leaving behind those who stopped for a day of rest and worship. Weeks passed, and as the settlers continued to move westward, the families who had taken Sunday off began to catch up with those who had pushed ahead-only to find broken-down wagons, lame animals and weary people. Paul's father told him he decided right then and there that the Bible was right; neither man nor beast was made to work seven days a week.
Area Locations:
3717 1st Avenue SE, CEDAR RAPIDS, IA 52403
4220 16th Avenue S.W., CEDAR RAPIDS, IA 52404
885 Edgewood Road, HIAWATHA, IA 52233
2530 Westwinds Drive, IOWA CITY, IA 52246
2765 Commerce Drive, IOWA CITY, IA 52240
615 Westwood Drive, PO 96, NORTH LIBERTY, IA 52317
3300 10th Avenue, MARION, IA 52302