Larry Miotto at work: always hustling. en THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN OAKVILLE UDING THE PARKING 9%\5, EVERY SUNDAY, HOLIDAYS EVENINGS AFTER 6:00 PM. SATURDAY PARKING DON‘T FORGET THAT PARKING IS 200 North Service Rd. WITH THIS COUPON 338â€"8313 Not valid with any other offers Expires Sat., May 181/93 2 For 1 MEN‘S LaDies® . * Wetes! EXCLUDING THE PARKING GARAGE (Photo by Peter McCusker) COMPLIMENTS OF YOUR DOWNTOWN OAKVILLE BIA AND YOUR DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES 844â€"4520 Grocery business never dull ........... just ask Larry Miotto here is nothing Larry Miotto likes more than going out on the floor on Saturday mornâ€" ing when the store is teeming with customers. "I go out with a box of someâ€" thing new, right off the truck â€" an exceptional buy," he emphasizes, "and I start hawking it. You get one person interested in the product, then everybody wants it." He smiles boyishly and adds, "It‘s fun." Miotto, fortysomething, is the "Mr. Barn" behind Jackson‘s Barn Value Foods, formerly Jackson‘s Barn Surplus Foods. (There is no Mr. Jackson.) The specialty of the house is end of line food products; products which are no longer manuâ€" factured or are undergoing design changes either in recipe or packagâ€" ing or sizing. It‘s an ever changing, unpredictable product line. Thus the slogan: "We deliver the unexpectâ€" ed," but the genial store owner adds cheerfully, "An adventure in shopâ€" ping," would also do. Hmm, once a salesman, always a salesman, I guess. Still he claims his "noâ€"frills" phiâ€" losophy attracts a full crossâ€"section CONSTRUCTION DRAWMNGS FOR BUILDING PERMITS CAILL NOW FOR A FREE CONSULTATION (416) 845â€"2751 323 Church St. Unit 16 Oakmile Ont. L6J IP2 SNOLIdday Sd490V1LL00 SAWOH of Oakville society. "Everybody is looking for a barâ€" gain," he says. He knows people. And he knows food. He also knows baseball. Miotto‘s compact office is a shrine to the sport and his beloved Blue Jays. He‘s a collector and calls himself a baseball historian. (Asked about the "three" happiâ€" est days of his life he answers careâ€" fully: 1) the day his son was born; 2) the day he was married; 3) the day he opened his business and 4) the day the Blue Jays won the World Series. It‘s a shrewd reply.) Miotto has been in the grocery business since he left school in Thorold, Ontario in the sixties. For eight years he worked for Oshawa Foods, managing a succession of IGA and Food City Stores in Clarkson and Oakville. And then, as a straight commission salesman, he sold pasta for Primo Italian Foods starting in 1973. "Believe me," he explains seriâ€" ously, "people were not consuming pasta 20 years ago the way they are today, but I enjoyed it, I did well,I hustled." funcral Bome A PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITY following the death of a loved one. And we‘re available afterwards, too, to assist you in any way we can in coping with your grief. As we continue to serve the community of Oakville, we would like to take this opportunity to renew our commitment to providing comfort, understanding and professional service %or many years to come. It takes a special kind of professionalism to serve a community well, And it takes a special effort to do a good job so that people are willing to refer otggrs to you. That‘s why our services are not limited just to the funeral itself For example, we are available for preâ€" arrangement services so you can plan the details of a funeral in advance and eliminate some of the stress He smiles, "It was interesting. The last thing I ever expected in my life was to become a selfâ€"employed businessman. It was never my goal. I sort of fell into it." "You had to sell yourself first," the mustachioed grocer points out the first rule of salesmanship, "and from there you sell your products." In three years he built up a solid client base in Etobicoke, Mississauga and Oakville. That‘s when the company decided to "reâ€" arrange" his territory and skim off some of his best accounts. "I decided it was time to move on," Miotto says and came up with a plan for his own business. The first store was on Kerr Street, in 1976, about 500 sq.ft. tucked in behind some other estabâ€" lishment, not even a storefront. 56 Lakeshore Rd. W. Oakville, Ontario L6K 1C7 (416) 842â€"2252 (See ‘Community‘ page 5) ©1993 Trillium Funeral Service Corp