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.

Fluvanna Quality Markets Closing

Link to December 6 Jamestown Post Journal article.

Excerpt:
When the Fluvanna Avenue Quality Markets store was erected in the early 1980s, the price tag for construction was $2 million.

At the time, the Fluvanna Avenue corridor was a bustling area of commerce in the city. The closing location also featured the first supermarket-based salad bar in the area, as the idea was only experimental in 1983.

Along with the Fluvanna Avenue store, Penn Traffic recently closed grocery stores in Oswego and Lebanon, N.H., citing the same reasons as those given for the local closing.