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Raintree Market Opens New Location in Jeanerette, LA

Raintree Jeanerette Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Jeanerette, La. – November 19, 2025 –

Raintree Market announces their grand opening of new location at 1001 East Main Street, Jeanerette, LA 70544 in partnership with the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana.

 

The team at Raintree Market, a tribal-enterprise supermarket of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, is excited to announce their grand opening of their new full-service grocery store. The ribbon cutting ceremony took place at the new store location on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

 

This new store will provide a variety of fresh produce and food staple items to the community of Jeanerette who has recently experienced a gap in the availability of full-service grocery stores. The store is supplied by Associated Grocers, who have given the store the opportunity to maintain a strong product variety and operational system.

 

Raintree Jeanerette New Store Location

Since a fire destroyed the previous grocery store in June of 2022, the members of the Jeanerette community have been deprived the access to a full-service grocery store. The General Manager of Raintree Market, Countice LeBlanc said, “Mac’s Grocery Store was the only grocery store in Jeanerette. When it was destroyed by fire, the community lost essential access. We knew we needed to act.”

 

We want to thank all the residents of Jeanerette for your support as well as The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana and our wholesale partner, Associated Grocers. With your support, we are proud to serve a community of families, neighbors, and friends for all their grocery needs.

Chitimacha Tribe Of Louisiana Announces Plan To Expand Raintree Market With Second Location

Baldwin, La. – January 12, 2023 – The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana has announced that it will expand Raintree Market with a second location in Jeanerette, LA. The Tribe has purchased what was Mac’s Grocery Store and plans to renovate and re-open it as a 2nd location of Raintree Market. The new location will be similar to the existing one they own, in Baldwin, LA.

 

Countice Leblanc, General Manager of Raintree Market, said, “We were deeply saddened for the Jeanerette community after learning that Mac’s Grocery Store had been destroyed by fire. Mac’s was the only grocery store in Jeanerette. After it was destroyed the community had nowhere to buy their much-needed provisions and daily needs. I knew we needed to do something for the community there. They needed a grocery store!” Leading the expansion is Chitimacha Tribal Chairman, Melissa Darden. “We could not leave our neighbors in a bind! Many people who do not have cars used to walk to Mac’s. It was the anchor of the community due to its location and what it provided. We have a very successful model with our very own Raintree Market. It was a no-brainer; we could fill a need for our neighbors and expand an already successful business model,” said Melissa Darden.

 

The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana is hoping to have the 2nd location of Raintree Market open and accessible to the Jeanerette community by spring 2024.

 

 

About Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana

 

The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana is a federally recognized Tribe. Our current home is the Chitimacha Reservation near Charenton, Louisiana; although we once occupied about one-third of what is now Louisiana, as some of the original inhabitants of the Atchafalaya Basin, Mississippi River Delta and the Gulf Coast. We are a sovereign nation governed by our Tribal Council. Our government operates similar to other governments, providing services to enrolled tribal members and infrastructure for our community.

Today, the tribe has many enterprises, which include: Cypress Bayou Casino and Hotel, Raintree Market (a full-service grocery market), Raintree Village (a master plan development property), Keta (a holding company), Tiya Support Services (a governmental contracting company), Sitimaxa ( a holding company), Wayti Services (a governmental contracting company), Colorado Professional Resources (a technical support company that supports U.S. Department of Defense agencies), and Tiya Construction Services (a construction entity). In addition, the tribal government has its own police department, fire department, health clinic, pharmacy, museum, cultural/historic preservation office, elderly assisted living facility, housing program, scholarship program, etc… Revenue, from its business entities, has allowed the tribe to operate these programs and also to purchase land in the surrounding area, which at one time was held by the tribe. The tribe is one of the larger employers in St. Mary Parish and contributes economically to the parish via tax revenue, which supports parish entities.