BRIEFLY NORTHWEST.Byline: The Register-Guard Save-A-Lot Save-A-Lot is a grocery store chain that is the thirteenth-largest retail chain and sixth-largest chain under a single banner with more than one thousand stores in the United States with $4 billion in sales. They are headquartered in Earth City, Missouri. to open store in Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). today COTTAGE GROVE - Save-A-Lot Stores is opening its latest grocery store at 10 a.m. today at 200 Gateway Blvd Blvd abbr (= boulevard) → Bd . in Cottage Grove - a week ahead of schedule. Save-A-Lot, which is the nation's fifth-largest grocery chain, expanded into the Northwest in 2006 and now has about 10 stores in the region, including a store that opened in 2007 at 42nd and Main streets in Springfield. The company describes itself as a "value-oriented" chain, with stores that run about half or less the size of conventional super markets, which are typically 40,000 square feet. Save-A-Lot (www.save-a-lot.com) stores carry about 1,250 different items, compared with the 30,000 or more often carried by conventional supermarkets. The chain says it is able to keep overhead low by carrying only the most popular products and sizes, and by selling about 80 percent of its products under its own brand. |
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