Super Store Program

Supervalu Inc. (Minneapolis) has announced it will continue to add locations to its corporate retail grocery network with new store openings in key markets. The company also is engaged in a dynamic remodeling program across its corporate-owned retail banners.

Supervalu’s portfolio of regional retail banners includes bigg’s, Cub Foods, Shop ‘n Save and Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, Farm Fresh, Hornbacher’s and Scott’s.

“In fiscal year 2005, we continued to build successfully on our plan for expansion across our major markets, which consistently has been our strategy,” said executive vp John Hooley, who is also president for retail foods. “In our new fiscal year 2006, we’ll continue our tradition of fresh thinking with more new store openings and remodels across our banners.”

Recent expansion activity across all markets includes: a new 76,000-square-foot bigg’s in Cincinnati’s Hyde Park neighborhood, site of a former Thriftway property; two new Cub Foods sites in Minneapolis/St. Paul, to open this summer (bringing Cub Foods’ Twin Cities network to 52 stores); a new 48,000-square-foot Shop ‘n Save store in New Stanton, Pa. (the Pittsburgh area), as the anchor tenant in a renovated retail development; seven remodels in St. Louis; a new 57,000-square-foot Shopper’s Food & Pharmacy to open in Baltimore in April, anchoring a new shopping center there; another 69,000 square-foot Shopper’s price superstore to open its doors in June in Dumfries, Va.; a new 63,000-square foot Farm Fresh store, the company’s first, in North Carolina; a remodeled, expanded-format 70,000-square-foot Farm Fresh store in Williamsburg, Va.; and a remodeling project for Scott’s Food & Pharmacy, the oldest grocery chain in Fort Wayne, Ind.