Giant to Buy Parkville Fresh and Greens
Less than a year after Fresh & Greens took over the store in Parkville Shopping Center, it's being sold to Giant Food.
Giant Food is buying the former Superfresh location in Parkville from Fresh & Green's, less than a year after the latter took the store over
Giant, the Baltimore area's largest grocer, announced the deal today with Mrs. Green's Management Corp. to buy the location at 7709 Harford Road in Parkville.
Parkville store manager Denise Clark, who has worked at the store since it was a Superfresh, was excited to share the news on a Friday afternoon.
"I’m excited that there’s still going to be a grocery store in the community and Giant Food certainly has a great reputation for customer service," Clark said.
Clark told Patch that all of the employees at the Parkville Fresh & Greens had been offered a position with Giant.
"In this day and age, that's a good thing," Clark said.
As part of the deal, Giant will also acquire a Fresh & Greens location at 1020 West 41st St. in Hampden. Both stores will close for renovations when the deal is complete. A timetable for the changeover was not announced.
“Giant Food is excited about the opportunity to remodel and open two convenient locations for Baltimore-area customers,” Anthony Hucker, president of Giant Food, said in a statement.
“We look forward to making significant improvements to the stores and to offering our unique combination of quality, value and service, which customers have come to expect from Giant for more than seven decades.”
Prior to the announcement, some North Baltimore residents had complained about Fresh & Green's produce display.
Officials with Fresh & Green's expect to continue operations at its five other Maryland stores, all of which were purchased last year when Superfresh opted to close most of its locations in the state.
Ruth Baisden
4:26 pm on Friday, February 3, 2012
This is good news! The store not only serves local residents but is an anchor for other stores in the Parkville Shopping Center. I look forward to buying fresh produce and veggies (cakes to but not to much).
christina
3:50 am on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Hey Ms Ruth! I just applied for a job at this location. Im laurens friend christina!
MaryLynn Swartz
4:29 pm on Friday, February 3, 2012
Thanks Nick!!!
Shannon
4:41 pm on Friday, February 3, 2012
That SuperFresh pic is the Hampden store, not the Parkville store! I think it will be great to have a Giant in the neighborhood again. Even though I've grown quite fond of Shoppers, I'm sure I will try out the new Giant when it opens. Question about the Giant take-over in Hampden...why would they buy a store on 41st Street when there is already a Giant a block up the street from there?? Just wondering if you had any more info...
Tyler Waldman
6:57 pm on Friday, February 3, 2012
Giant is closing the Rotunda store. All the employees there will stay with Giant, as will all the employees in the stores the company is buying.
MaryLynn Swartz
4:53 pm on Friday, February 3, 2012
Rotunda store lost its license.
Rocco Rotondo
7:19 pm on Friday, February 3, 2012
That is great news. I have shopped there 2 days this week and the store was practicly bare. I asked people who work there what was going on and they said they did not know. I think they knew but could not say. The really good news is that Giant will keep them on. I have known these pople for years.
Edwin Fitzsimmons
2:07 am on Saturday, February 4, 2012
Any ideas as to why fresh and Greens would just give up on a store so quickly? Did they ever really intend to "redesign" the store like their commercials said they were going to do?
Shannon
11:04 am on Saturday, February 4, 2012
ah well that's good news. thanks tyler!
Nancy
11:54 am on Saturday, February 4, 2012
I HATE Giant! Their prices are too high and twice I've gotten produce home and it was bad by the next day. The only reason I go there now is because it is the closest to my home. LOVED the bakery at Fresh & Green. Would love to see a Trader Joe's in the area.
Vicki
11:59 am on Saturday, February 4, 2012
As a former employee of Superfresh for almost 16 years, i was sad to see it go. Then Fresh and Green's came and i thought yeah i still have a job. Now Giant is coming and i'm hopeful to be in a store where both customers and employees will both be satisfied. I think the latter store needs to get some lessons from thriving companies in the surrounding areas. They really let the Parkville shoppers down. Don't give up former shoppers, we are coming back to you.
Kiley Saeed
12:46 pm on Saturday, February 4, 2012
I am not a Giant shopper. They are ridiculously expensive. Even their store brands are higher than the store brands at Shoppers or Safeway. There are a few products that only they carry and that is the only reason I even set foot in a Giant store. I'm only a few blocks from the Parkville location, but I will still drive over to Shoppers when I need something. I am glad that there will be a grocery store there for those without cars though.
Rebecca
11:18 am on Monday, February 6, 2012
I was very disappointed to see Super Fresh go. I started shopping at Safeway because Fresh&Green were higher, little variety & bare. I aslo am not a Giant shopper due to high prices & bas produce experience at a few diif stores but it is closer to me & I will give them & teh coupon program another chance.
JM
10:10 am on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Let's face it, F&G was never really invested in the Parkville location. The produce selection was anemic, shoppers were promised a renovation that never happened (signs offering that promise were in place until the last day), it's almost as though they came in as a placeholder until Giant could get their act together. The best thing about Fresh & Greens was that it was never busy; I don't think I ever had to wait in line when I shopped there, no matter what day or time it was.
Doris
1:58 pm on Thursday, February 9, 2012
Screw Giant. They are offering Fresh & Green's employees' from these two stores part time 16 hours a week jobs at lower per hour saleries then they were making as full time employee's at Fresh & Greens. I will never spend a nickle at Giant food Parkville or any other Giant. The employee's at Parkville Fresh & Green were very polite, helpful and courteous to me as a long time shopper there They are being insulted by being offered part time jobs at other Giant locations so that Giant can bring in their own employees.
Doris
2:06 pm on Thursday, February 9, 2012
I agree with you Doris. As a long time shopper at the Parkville store I got to know many of their employee's. To hear that Giant is only offering these people part time work is a strike against Giant food. Like most big companies Giant only cares about the corporation and not their employee's. I feel bad for these employee's from the Parkville and 41st street stores. To offer someone part time after many of these people have wroked full time and have families to support is cruel. Although I live in the neighborhood, my business will go elsewhere. Shame on you Giant!
JM
8:53 am on Friday, April 20, 2012
I wasn't aware of this, but it explains why we're not seeing any of the familiar faces there. That's disappointing.
I'll be interested to see how things go with the new ShopRite.
Doris
2:09 pm on Thursday, February 9, 2012
Giant food at parkville. Forget it. Withtheir high prices, I won't be shopping there. Sorry to hear about the employees they are railroading by offering them part time jobs after working at Super Fresh and Fresh & Green's as full time employee's. No concern for people, just for profit.
Sue Italiano
9:39 am on Thursday, March 8, 2012
Hi,
Where can you apply to the new store?
softballmom
8:42 am on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Do we know if the new Giant will be hiring student employees?