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Grocery Store Chain Plans to Close a Dozen Locations

PHOENIX-A national grocery store chain plans to close a dozen stores in Phoenix and Tucson, dumping hundreds of square feet of available retail space onto the market and leaving a number of locations without anchor tenants.

By D.J. Burrough | Updated on February 08, 2001

PHOENIX-A national grocery store chain plans to close at least a dozen stores in the Valley, dumping hundreds of square feet of retail space onto the market.

The Fleming Companies, a Dallas-based grocery store wholesaler, put its portfolio of more than 50 ABCO stores up for sale in April, but there’s been few takers. Safeway purchased 11 of the stores earlier this year, seven in Tucson and four in the Phoenix area, but no others have been sold.

As a result, Fleming plans to close 12 locations, which will, in addition to putting 700 people out of work, free up thousands of square feet of retail space and leave a number of neighborhood centers without an anchor tenant. Ten of the closings will come in the Valley and two in Tucson. The closings will occur of the next three months, say company officials.

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