Sunday, March 22, 2009

Can urban supermarket avoid early expiration date?

Link to March 23 Buffalo News article.

Excerpt: The pork spareribs for 99 cents a pound helped draw a few thousand shoppers to the PriceRite grand opening today, with customers sometimes waiting in line to get in.

But supermarkets have come and gone in Elmwood Avenue's Stuyvesant Plaza.

So after the sale ends, will they come back?

The president of the no-frills discount food retailer predicts they will return.

"We have a model that's proven extremely successful," said Neil Duffy, president of the Wethersfield, Conn., company.

The new store at 250 Elmwood Ave. is PriceRite's first in Buffalo and 39th overall. PriceRite has opened 20 stores in the past four years.

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