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Business Fri Sep 12 2008
Urban Fresh to Replace Sunflower Market
It looks like there's a new store opening in the space that was Sunflower Market on Clybourn (1910 N. Clybourn, to be exact). It's called Urban Fresh, by Jewel--a smaller-scale grocery score that will offer ready-made meals, produce, organic foods and other convenience items with a healthy spin. Earlier this week the New York Times had an article about similar markets opening up around the country, all coming from larger chains like Safeway and Wal-Mart; even Whole Foods is planning cozier stores for harried shoppers.
European chain Aldi is also planning to open new (and smaller-than-average) stores in the Chicago area, and similarly, instead of dozens of brands of bread or cereal, Aldi mostly sells only one, often their own brand, making shopping easy and less expensive.
Michael Beesom / September 12, 2008 9:45 PM
These two blogs have lots of coverage on small-format stores like Urban Fresh and otehrs.
www.freshneasybuzz.blogspot.com
www.naturalspecialtyfoodsmemo.blogspot.com
using small-format grocery stores and small-format food retailing in the search boxes on the blogs brought up lots of posts. Also looking through the archives of course.
Michael