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Four Corners Bulk Food & Deli serving up quality

Situated amongst rolling farmland near Morrison’s Amish community, Four Corners Bulk Food & Deli at 5093 Jacksboro Road offers up everything from fresh baked goods and quality deli meats to canned goods and local seasonal produce.

The store is owned and operated by Holmes County, Ohio natives Marcus and Nora Byler and their family.

“Basically we started five years ago, in the little 25 x 50 ft. building in the front,” Marcus Byler said. “Then three years into it we built the addition on it and that is 60 x 80 ft.”

Members of the Mennonite Church, Byler said he and his family relocated to Middle Tennessee from Ohio seven years ago to help out with a church on State Route 53.

“Bulk food was the main thing,” Byler said. “A lot of people we saying that we don’t have bulk food stores around here so we said we would go for it, and I figured maybe we would do it as a family business.”

The business features a full deli counter with products like Walnut Creek and Troyer’s meats and cheeses.

“We knew the product up there and so we tried to make connections and we were able to do that with a food truck coming down here once a week,” Byler said.

For those in need of a little snack while they shop, customers can also get a made to order deli sandwich, cup of soup or soft serve ice cream treat.

With the holidays fast approaching, Four Corners also has a wide variety of both popular and hard to find ingredients for holiday baking. For those that would rather leave the pie making to someone else this year, Four Corners takes orders for Thanksgiving pies that can be picked up a day or two before the holiday.

“That is something that is sort of growing,” Byler said. “Every year it gets a little more.”

While Four Corners Bulk Food & Deli is not an “Amish” store, Byler said they do carry produce from neighboring Amish farms as well as other goods made by members of the Amish community.

“I know a lot of people call it the Amish store, but we are actually Mennonite, because the Amish could not have electricity, a cooler or freezer,” he said. “We do carry their local produce during the summer and there is one family that makes the goat milk soap and there is another family that makes the hand-woven baskets and there is another family from the community here that makes bird houses and cedar products, things like that.”

Byler said he enjoys being able to work with his family on a daily basis, which currently includes two of his sons, a son-in-law and his wife.

“That is probably the main reason we started this, so we could have a family business,” he said. “As time goes on as the children marry and everything I am trying to pull them in too.”

“A second son is just in the transition of coming into it,” Byler added. “He is going to be selling swing sets, poly furniture outside and then while he is not busy there he will be in here.”

As for the future, Byler said right now his family is just enjoying things the way they are, rather than building a warehouse or expanding the building again.

About three months ago, Byler and his wife purchased Country Bakery and Deli located about 20 minutes up the road in Cannon County. As more of his children become involved in Four Corners, he hopes he and his wife can transition their focus to Country Bakery.

Four Corners Bulk Food & Deli is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. The store is closed Sunday and Monday.