Supermarket Expansions

Here’s the latest from three regional grocery chains:

*Food Basics (Toronto) has opened in the latest phase of a shopping plaza being developed in Hawkesbury, Ont., which sits about midway between Ottawa and Montreal. The 32,000-square-foot discount grocery is the first tenant in the Plaza Hawkesbury – Phase III, developer Harden announced.

* Tawa Supermarket’s 99 Ranch Market (Buena Park, Calif.) has debuted in New York market and opened a second store in Oregon. The Asian grocery store chain took the wraps off its 64th location, in Flushing, N.Y., last month, followed by the Aug. 16 opening of its latest store, in Portland. Ore. (Its first locale in that state, in Beaverton, opened in 2017.)

* SpartanNash’s Supermercado Nuestra Familia (Byron Center, Mich.) chain will open a store in Topeka, Kan., this November. The 50,000-square-foot space is the Hispanic chain’s first in Kansas and its fifth overall.