Most of Colorado grocery stores being starved by owner sold, re-opening

Several Northeastern Colorado rural communities are getting their grocery stores back. Sam Mancini, the owner of eight Bella's Markets, was starving the stores, leaving many of them open, but with little to no items on the shelves. But most of the stores have now been sold, and ones in Akron, Haxtun, Wiggins and Walden are all open or close to opening, Jacyln Allen reports for KMGH-TV in Denver. (KMGH-TV photo: Volunteers stock the shelves in Akron)

Mancini also sold markets in Limon and Stratton, but as of Aug. 21 still owned Bella's in Gypsum and Wellington, Tom McGhee reports for The Denver Post. The Post reported in July that Mancini, who filed for bankruptcy in 2012, "paid himself $1.4 million between 2010 and June 2013," according to bankruptcy documents. He used about $700,000 of that to pay off judgments and claims against him, bankruptcy documents said."