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You can also get the app here.Voices of the Valley: Dave Ratner, Dave’s Soda and Pet City iGive never has access to any payment information. I started in 1975 selling all different brands of soda out of an abandoned Arco station on Route 9 in Hadley. About a year later, I bought a dog, a Bentley beagle, and one day I went into a grocery store to buy dog food and noticed there was more pet food than soda. I decided to go into the pet food business. AGAWAM The owner of Dave’s Soda and Pet City, a local pet supply chain, has sold five of his stores keeping only the Agawam location. In 1976, I opened my second store, in Agawam in an abandoned four-bay car wash. Dave Ratner previously owned the five stores, which were located in Ludlow, Hadley, Northampton, Ware, Agawam, and Stafford, CT.

We now have five stores, in Agawam, Springfield, Northampton, Ware and Hadley. Dave's Soda and Pet at Mountain Farms, address: 335 Russell Street, Hadley, Massachusetts - MA 01035. We sell every brand of pet food known to man and all kinds of nonalcoholic beverages and waters, pet supplies, fish, small animals, birds and reptiles. The good news is we have been OK because maybe you can’t stand your husband or wife, you hate your kids, but you love your dog or cat. You still buy the premium food, but not the treats that go with it. We’ve been in this building two years, where the size has allowed me to buy large quantities of things. We have so many promotions and deals we keep getting more customers. With five stores we have pretty good buying power. We buy overstocks and we pass the deals on to our customers.įortunately, we actually had to hire some help. We have become a lot more aggressive with prices. We are selling high end and lower end food.įor our own business, the future is very good. Dave Ratner has been marketing his own brand of dog food for the past fifteen years, selling it at Dave's Soda and Pet City locations in Agawam, Springfield, Hadley, and Northampton, Massachusetts. Smithland Supply Pet Centers in Massachusetts and Connecticut, formerly known as Dave’s Soda & Pet City, employ the same inventory and staff from its previous incarnation, and. I don’t see people’s love of their pets disappearing any time soon.