Cockrell Mercantile

Cockrell Mercantile is a five-building country-store retail village on Old 50 Highway in the Cockrell community of eastern Jackson County, selling kitchenware, cookware, Fiestaware, baking supplies, gourmet foods, home décor and gifts out of a century-old general store and a cluster of relocated 19th-century houses.

Description

Cockrell Mercantile occupies a small cluster of buildings on Old US 50 Highway in Cockrell, an unincorporated rural community in eastern Jackson County that now falls inside the Lee’s Summit city limits, roughly between Lee’s Summit proper and Lone Jack.¹² The retail village is built around a general-store building described by the business as roughly 100 years old, with the surrounding structures being former homes and buildings from the late 1800s converted to retail use.¹²

The business is organised as five separate shop buildings, four of which are named on its own site.¹ The main Cockrell Mercantile General Store carries kitchen linens, home décor, Republic of Tea products, specialty jams and sauces, and the store’s best-known feature, a “Gadget Room” holding hundreds of kitchen tools; brands stocked include Le Creuset, Wüsthof and Swiss Diamond.¹ Cockrell Cottage holds women’s clothing and accessories, Vera Bradley bags, hats, boutique jewellery and Mixture and Swan Creek scented candles.¹ Fiesta Cottage carries what the business calls the Midwest’s largest Fiestaware selection — place settings, serving bowls and bakeware.¹ Morton House is given over to baking, stocking USA Pan and Nordic Ware bakeware, Watkins extracts and Mason Cash mixing bowls.¹

The store sells online as well as in person, and posts sample pricing on its own site — Fiestaware place settings at $39.99, a Le Creuset petal braiser at $315.00, Fiesta mini bowls at $9.99.¹

The owners describe the operating principle as “old fashioned customer service,” which they call “a refreshing way to do business,” and stress an “outstanding selection of quality products at reasonable prices.”²

Ownership and history

The community of Cockrell was a small frontier trading settlement in the early 1900s, home to about five families, roughly twelve miles south of the Missouri River; residents worked the land and traded at the general store that is now the mercantile’s main building.² The store served Kansas City-area customers for close to forty years in its earlier incarnation.²

The retail business was founded by John Perucca, who also founded the Pryde’s Old Westport kitchen store in Kansas City.² It is now owned and operated by Becky and Chris Glaze.² Becky Glaze came to retail after a fifteen-year corporate career as a loan officer; Chris Glaze moved across from agricultural management and handles operations.²

“ — the year the Glazes acquired the business (secondary summaries give 2005, but this could not be confirmed against a source that was directly retrievable), the exact founding year of the retail operation under Perucca, and the construction date of the general-store building (variously described as 100 and 115 years old).

As of April 2026 the business was described in a Fox 4 Kansas City / WDAF item as family-owned and in operation “for over two decades.”³

Links

• Website: https://www.cockrellmercantile.com/

What they sell

• General Store: kitchen linens, home décor, Republic of Tea, specialty jams and sauces, the Gadget Room (hundreds of kitchen tools), Le Creuset, Wüsthof, Swiss Diamond.¹
• Cockrell Cottage: women’s clothing and accessories, Vera Bradley, hats, boutique jewellery, Mixture and Swan Creek candles.¹
• Fiesta Cottage: Fiestaware place settings, serving bowls, bakeware.¹
• Morton House: USA Pan and Nordic Ware bakeware, Watkins extracts, Mason Cash mixing bowls.¹
• Fifth building: the site states five buildings but names four; the fifth is “.

Sample first-party prices (retrieved 2026-08-26): Fiestaware place setting $39.99; Le Creuset petal braiser $315.00; Fiesta mini bowls $9.99.¹

Sources

Footnotes

1. Cockrell Mercantile official website — home page and Morton House shop page (buildings, brands, hours, address, phone, sample prices). Retrieved 2026-08-26. URLs and cockrellmercantile.com ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

2. “About Us,” business-authored profile text for Cockrell Mercantile on Yelp (owners Becky and Chris Glaze; founder John Perucca; Cockrell settlement history; operating philosophy). Retrieved 2026-08-26. URL — business-supplied copy hosted on an aggregator; treated as first-party text, not as independent verification. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

3. Micah Manalo, “Cockrell Mercantile – Where History Meets Style,” WDAF / Fox 4 Kansas City, 28 April 2026 (syndicated via AOL; the item is labelled sponsored content). URL ↩