Central Market Poulsbo opened its doors in 1995 as the biggest store in the Town & Country family and the first of what are now three Central Markets, all of them focused on fresh, quality food and variety on a grand scale.
But the company was no stranger to Poulsbo, having opened Viking Mark-It Foods in 1974 at the corner of SR 305 and NE Hostmark Street as its second store after Bainbridge Island. Viking Mark-It Foods, where customers marked prices with black grease pencils and bagged their own groceries, was recreated as Poulsbo Market Place in the mid-1980s eventually...
