New High-End Walgreens To Offer Gourmet Groceries - Even Fresh Sushi
Walgreens is sinking over $3 million into its existing Centre Street location, with big plans to launch one of the chain's new high-end, Whole Foods-style grocery stores there.
Walgreens will invest over $3 million into it's Centre Street location this year, with plans to re-open the site as one of the chain's new "gourmet"-style stores, offering Whole Foods-style groceries and other amenities. The new store will include some items that would seem out of place in a traditional Walgreens, including the sale of fresh produce, fine cheeses and even fresh sushi prepared on-site. Construction will expand the store into the soon-to-be vacant Blockbuster Video next door. The plans also include major landscaping, traffic and pedestrian light improvements for the parking lot and nearby intersection. Malden will see one of the first few such stores opening in the United States. Other test stores have opened in Los …
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Junebug
12:31 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
A Trader Joe's in Malden is a great idea. But I think that only a handful of people in Malden would go there. I think if they are going to put something there it has to fit the area and the people. A Trader Joe's would be great...... but in another part of Malden. I think anything but sushi will do though. more ›