Supervalu to close 60 stores, including Save-a-Lots

Associated Press

NEW YORK

Supervalu Inc. said Wednesday that it will close an additional 60 underperforming stores as it pushes to turn around its struggling business.

The grocery-store operator, based in Eden Prairie, Minn., said the closures include Albertsons, ACME and Save-A-Lot stores in various states.

Most are expected to close by Dec. 1. The company was notifying employees at the targeted stores Wednesday but did not say how many would be affected.

The company says the stores closing include 18 Albertsons in Southern California and eight Albertsons in Washington and Oregon. Also targeted: four ACME stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland, and 22 Save-A-Lot stores, spread across seven states.

Eight others to be shut were not disclosed because of ongoing contract discussions.