BALTIMORE (AP) -- The owner of Superfresh grocery stores says it will shut down 13 stores in July because it can't find buyers.
Superfresh has been trying to sell 25 stores, mostly in the Baltimore area. The company announced Wednesday that it found buyers for 12 stores.
Ten stores will be sold to a joint venture between organic grocer Mrs. Green's Management Corp. and Village Super Markets Inc. That sale includes two Baltimore stores, as well as stores in Parkville, Arnold, White Oak, Lutherville-Timonium, Cambridge, Chestertown, Brunswick and Washington, D.C.
Supervalu has bid on a Superfresh store in Ellicott City.
The sales could generate $40 million for the grocery chain's parent company, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., which is in bankruptcy. The company has said 1,500 workers could lose their jobs.
Editors Notes: The Salisbury store will be closed and was not sold. Salisbury News originally published this news back on April 14, 2011 HERE.
18 comments:
a trader joes would do phenominal on college ave..
I live in Ocean City and would drive to Salisbury to do my shopping if a Trader Joes was there!
so hows that union treating those people now?
No one wants the one in Salisbury?
It's been reported that the 2 Super Fresh stores in Ocean City were not part of the sale. There were no comments relative to their actual future though.
See the Baltimore Business Journal here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2011/05/16/superfresh-could-cut-nearly-1500.html
obammie and the dumbocraps have been saying how the economy is getting better. Those laid off workers should have no problem finding another well paying job!
Harris Teeter where are you? Wish you would purchase the one in Salisbury.
If enough people started contacting Wakefern Foods (Shop Rite) maybe they'd come in. They'd so great here.
Al in Fenwick
The two Ocean City stores are not for sale. Rumor has it they will be closed in November. Rumor also has it that Harris Teeter and Giant are looking at those two locations if they are sold at a later date.
"Harris Teeter and Giant are looking at those two locations if they are sold at a later date."
It could very well be that the OC locations are leased rather than owned. The White Marlin Mall store is far too small for either of these chains I would think. Also, the new Super Walmart further West next to Home Depot has started construction.
Whole Foods or Trader Joe's would be perfect. The unions killed more American Jobs. There is no need for unions now that the government has mandated minimum wage and workers compensation.
2:45 I heard the same thing.
NO whole foods.
Organic? Yeah, it wont last long. I have seen organic prices! $6.12 for a gallon of organic milk. Wont buy stock in that company!
3:50 PM
They are all a crock. It was just released this year how they are no better for your health. Just more money to line their pockets.
I do like Trader Joe's coffee tho.
trader joes and harris teeter! those companies couldn't locate salisbury on a map with a big circle drawn around it! be realistic. they require larger popluations to shop there...besides the fact that lower shore incomes cannot make them interested.
Hey Al 3:08, its the leases that are sold for your information
Look on the bright side: the South side of Salisbury has been missing a big empty building with an overgrown parking lot ever since the Dresser building was torn down. Salisbury's level of urban blight goes back to normal.
I am more concerned for the employees, most of whom have been there seemingly forever. Mindless comments about unions ignore this. Lots of people in Salisbury are about to be unemployed, and there are NO jobs on this side of the bay.
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