Wal-Mart’s Marketside opens Oct. 4
September 25th, 2008, 1:02 pm · Post a Comment · posted by davewoodfill
Marketside grocery stores open for business Oct. 4, making them the most recent player to the Valley - one of the nation’s most crowded markets in the grocery industry.
The four Marketside stores opening in Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert and Chandler, will serve as test subjects for their Bentonville Ark.-based parent company, Wal-Mart Stores.
The neighborhood-centric grocery store, roughly the size of two Circle K stores, aims to provide fresh, low-priced groceries with fast in-and-out service.
The four Marketplaces are at Elliot and Cooper roads in Gilbert, Baseline and Sossaman roads in Mesa, Ray and McQueen roads in Chandler, and Elliot and Rural roads in Tempe.
Tribune file Photo This Marketside grocery store at Ray and McQeen roads in Chandler is one of four locations being tested by Wal-Mart Stores Inc.