Beneva Road Sweetbay To Close in Sarasota
The Sarasota store is among 33 under performing supermarkets in Florida.
One Sarasota Sweetbay Supermarket and three in Manatee County will close in February, according to media reports. The stores are at: According to TBO, around 2,000 people will lose their jobs in Florida as a result of the closings: "They are simply underperforming stores," said Sweetbay spokeswoman Nicole LeBeau. "Some of them, the leases were coming up, and just based on the sales of the stores they were selected." The Delhaize Group, which owns Sweetbay and Food Lion, made the announcement Wednesday as it released its 2012 annual report. According to the Delhaize report, the company would spend $173 million in store closing expenses and $106 million in 2013: “We remain determined to accelerate the transformation of our business," …
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Charles Locke
6:01 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
I live in Maine and shop Hannaford Markets which are good operations. I also live in Florida and shop mostly at Publix...when Sweetbay opened I knew right off that they were destined for failure...Publix is tough competition..and the name Sweetbay??? I would have thought they could do better than that. more ›