The agency state liquor store and wine shop inside the store will remain open, an employee said. Signs posted at the entrance said the store would continue to sell beer, wine, spirits, and snack items and would remain open seven days a week.
Owner Michael Lofino submitted an application to state officials in March to move the store to a smaller space elsewhere in the same shopping center. Lofino “made the strategic business decision to relinquish his interest in the retail grocery business,” his representatives told the Ohio Division of Liquor Control in the application to relocate the liquor store.
The Lofino’s Marketplace store opened along with the the shopping center itself in the early 1970s. At the time, it was the second and larger Lofino’s store in Beavercreek; Lofino Food Stores was already operating a smaller grocery on Dayton-Xenia Road north of U.S. 35.
Michael Lofino’s father Charles, who died in 2008, founded the company in the early 1950s. Lofino Food Stores also operated several now-defunct Cub Foods grocery stores in the Dayton area, and also formerly owned several Sav-A-Lot stores in the Dayton, Columbus and Indianapolis areas.
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