Grocery Department

Sonoma Market brings an amazing assortment of gourmet foods, confections and hard to find items from all over the world to our customers. Our main focus is to support our local vendors by filling our shelves with their incredible products such as chocolates, honey, olive oil and preserves to name a few. Liz Griffith outdoes herself when ordering and arranging creative displays of sweets and gift items. She also is always looking for unique items for our card and gift wrap area so each trip to the market becomes a unique shopping experience.

Sonoma Market is a finely tuned machine that is able to run as well as it does due to the many key people that do their jobs so well. Bill Raub is one of those key people, he is in charge of keeping our store well-stocked with grocery items. He is assisted by Jesus Valdevinos who takes great pride in maintaining the aisles. Melchor Alcarez is responsible for the ordering and stocking of the dairy and frozen food departments. Oscar Zaldivar assists Melchor with those departments. This machine is able to function at such a high level bringing the customers the huge assortment of products that they enjoy due to the never-ending work of these dedicated employees.

Customer Service & Management

Mark Gore is our store manager and is responsible for the day to day operations of the entire store. He brings 27 years of hands-on grocery experience to Sonoma Market that enable him to keep the store running at the high standard that our customers expect. Mark began as a bagger and has been involved in a variety of aspects and levels that help him to provide the excellent customer service that Sonoma Market is famous for. Chris Kettler brings 22 years of grocery experience to the grocery manager position that supply him with the knowledge of how to keep the store running smoothly. Chris does an excellent job at continuing to provide our customers with the service that they expect.

Liz Griffith
 

Mark Gore, Monica Portelli, Liz Anduja,
Chris Kettler

Our customer service staff is highly trained and knowledgeable as well as being extremely friendly and helpful. Monica Portelli and Liz Andujar complete our outstanding management team by supervising our customer service staff and filling in where needed. Our baggers are their to carefully pack your groceries and assist you to your car.

Our office staff has a vast array of responsibilities such as accounting, banking, personnel records, and overseeing the huge amount of charitable donations made by the store on a weekly basis. Leslie Crook our knowledgeable human resources/office manager has been with the store 14 years and leads the office staff. Part of her responsibility is managing the payroll and benefit plans of over 190 Sonoma Market employees.