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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Another grocery store for Chicago

Let's see...

Dominicks
Jewel
Fox and Obel
Whole Foods
Trader Joes
Aldi

yep, definitely room for another grocery store! I love grocery stores!

Roundy's joins Chicago grocery fray
By John Schmeltzer
Tribune staff reporter
Published February 13, 2007

Declaring there aren't enough grocery stores in the Chicago region, a Milwaukee-based supermarket chain says it plans to plant its flag with a new west Lincoln Park store and follow it with a rapid expansion in 2008.

Roundy's Supermarkets Inc., which tried to enter Chicago market four years ago through an unsuccessful acquisition of the Dominick's supermarket chain, announced Monday that it would come to Chicago on its own by opening its first store in the Clybourn Avenue-North Avenue retail corridor.

The company did not give a time frame on the first store. But, during the next three years, the chain said it would open as many as a dozen stores here and offer employment to about 2,000 people. It currently operates 153 stores, mainly in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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2 Comments:

At 10:17 PM, Blogger Brady Frequent Traveler & Eater said...

a wegmans would be great

 
At 10:34 PM, Blogger Carolyn said...

A wegmans would be phenomenal...

 

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