{"id":26302,"date":"2015-08-04T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=26302"},"modified":"2015-08-04T13:19:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T18:19:20","slug":"oxford-business-lands-prime-shelf-space-in-300-kroger-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-business-lands-prime-shelf-space-in-300-kroger-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford business lands prime shelf space in 300 Kroger stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>Oxford mom creates Cinderella food story<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>No Time 2 Cook<\/b> products, produced here in <b>Oxford<\/b>, hit area <b>Kroger <\/b>freezers<b> <\/b>in<b> <\/b>2014, and today, strong sales have captured the attention of <b>Kroger Corporate <\/b>in Cincinnati.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In June of this year, No Time 2 Cook became a permanent Kroger item in three Kroger Divisions\u2014Delta, Dallas, and Houston.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Today, customers will find No Time 2 Cook with multi-family meals in the main freezer aisle of <b>300 Kroger stores<\/b> throughout Mississippi, Texas, and other parts of the Deep South.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/KrogerLogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" class=\" size-full wp-image-26304 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/KrogerLogo.jpg?resize=200%2C160\" alt=\"KrogerLogo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">No Time 2 Cook is known for its authentic Southern fare specializing in family sized frozen foods for retail markets.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This Oxford Company was launched out of owner, Karen Kurr\u2019s, home kitchen when Kurr felt she had something special to share from recipes that had been passed down in her family. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"s1\">In the beginning, Kurr did everything from cooking and cleaning to delivering her goods to local farmers markets, flea markets, and small retail stores. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When growth became more than she could handle, Karen hired friends and family to help. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Some original staff members still work for the company taking as much pride as Karen in the quality and integrity of the finished product.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The business operated for 6 years out of<b> <\/b>the Kurr family home in Wellsgate, but when production exceeded house space, Karen built a small USDA plant in north Oxford where she continues to oversee operations<\/span><span class=\"s2\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/No-Time-2-CookOwner.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"714\" class=\" size-full wp-image-26303 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/No-Time-2-CookOwner.jpg?resize=600%2C714\" alt=\"Microsoft Word - No Time 2 Cook.docx\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/No-Time-2-CookOwner.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/No-Time-2-CookOwner.jpg?resize=252%2C300&amp;ssl=1 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Through dedication, tenacity, and hard work, this Oxford mom created a Cinderella food story by growing her business from a cottage industry to a successful company with product offered in the second largest grocery chain in the country. The best part is the products being produced for Kroger are the same made-from-scratch casseroles that were once produced in Kurr\u2019s home and sold in local markets. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In Oxford, customers can purchase No Time 2 Cook Chicken Pie, Chicken and Dumplings, Chicken and Dressing, Tamale Pie, and Crab and Mushroom Penne at the local Oxford Kroger.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In addition, The Depot Antique Mall next to Sears carries their entire line of products including Chicken Tetrazzini, Cajun Pimento Cheese, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><i>For more information, contact Karen Kurr at 662-832-4309, <\/i><a href=\"mailto:karen@notime2cook.com\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>karen@notime2cook.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>, or go to www.notime2cook.com. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford mom creates Cinderella food story No Time 2 Cook products, produced here in Oxford, hit area Kroger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":26305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-business","category-local-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/NoTime2CookLogo_sm.jpg?fit=400%2C165&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}