Shoppers Food is marking the opening of a grocery store this morning in Baltimore's Glen Oaks neighborhood.
The new Shoppers, in a former Stop Shop Save in the Alameda Market Place at 5600 The Alameda, hopes to fill a need in a city "food desert," chain officials said.
The 23,000-square-foot store is designed in a smaller format than traditional Shoppers stores, but still will offer a service deli with a hot food bar, fresh produce, fresh meat and a service seafood department with bulk family pack items.
"Our goal is to bring high quality and affordable foods to customers in the area — along with convenience, freshness and variety," Bob Gleeson, president of Shoppers, said in the announcement.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is expected to attend a 10:30 a.m. opening ceremony, where Shoppers plans to hand out gift cards to customers.
Shoppers, a chain owned by Supervalu, operates 56 stores in the Baltimore-Washington region and in northern Virginia, targeting price-conscious shoppers with an "everyday low price" strategy.
Stop Shop Save, a minority-owned chain that had served inner-city locations since 1978, closed its six stores last summer.