BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is proposing Merced, Calif., as the site for a regional distribution center, with construction planned to begin in 2007, and service to stores to start in 2008.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market said Friday it plans to open a 75,000-square-foot flagship store on central London's Kensington High Street in early 2007. It'll be the super-natural chain's first store outside of North America.
Seattle, Wash. -- PCC Natural Markets, a consumer-owned natural foods retailer with seven stores in Washington State, plans to open its eighth unit in Redmond, Wash., next spring.
COLTON, Calif. -- Growing regional supermarket operator Stater Bros. here has added a new notch on its belt, by acquiring 15 of the Super Rx pharmacies currently located in its stores.
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., based here, yesterday said that it had acquired a portfolio of eight properties in Virginia and Pennsylvania anchored by, or leased entirely to, supermarkets, for $93.8 million, exclusive of closing costs and fees.
PHILADELPHIA -- In a statewide program to promote development of supermarkets in inner city areas, a half a million dollars in state funding was awarded to establish a Fresh Grocer supermarket in the Yorktown section of Philadelphia, said the state's department of community and economic development (DCED).
