Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The grocery store that replaced Superfresh will host an open house one month after opening its doors.
Although it's been open for a month and a half, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy is hosting an open house and ribbon-cutting Tuesday night, officially signaling its grand opening. Shoppers, owned by Supervalu Inc., opened on July 16, replacing Superfresh, which filed for bankruptcy in June and closed or sold more than 20 grocery stores in Maryland. The sale to Shoppers was completed in mid-June. As part of Tuesday's ceremony, Shoppers executives will donate $1,000 each to the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. "We are extremely excited to formally open the Ellicott City location,” Shoppers' President Tim Lowe said in a statement released Tuesday by the company. “Since taking …
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The re-opening scheduled for July 17; pharmacy will remain open during conversion,
Officials of the Shoppers Food & Pharmacy chain announced Tuesday that they had finalized purchase of the Ellicott City Superfresh site and will re-open the store under new management on July 17. The main grocery store is expected to be closed for conversion work for about 10 days, but the pharmacy will remain open during that time to insure customers have uninterrupted access to needed medications, the company announced. “We are excited to become part of the Ellicott City community. We’re looking forward to serving our new neighbors and friends with a special local focus that can come only from a neighborhood grocer,” stated Tim Lowe, president of Bowie-based Shoppe Superfresh – a unit of the regional Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, or A…
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Friday, June 3, 2011
New owner intends to offer jobs to all the existing Superfresh workers at the store.
Employees at the Superfresh grocery store in Ellicott City will be offered jobs by the new owners when the store is converted to Shoppers Food & Pharmacy this summer, according to court documents filed this week in a New York bankruptcy court. About 80 employees at the store will be offered jobs with Shoppers Food, and the company will recognize their existing labor union for collective bargaining purposes, according to a proposed sale agreement filed in the court by Superfresh’s parent company. “It’s a good outcome for our members in Ellicott City. Of course we are pleased,” said Tim Goins, executive vice president of Towson-based United Food & Commercial Workers Local 27. The proposed sale by Superfresh corporate parent Great Atlantic…
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