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General News

Cub Foods becomes Shop ‘n Save this weekend

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Cub Foods at the Glen Hollow shopping center will officially become a Shop ‘n Save this weekend. The store will close Saturday night for the last time as Cub Foods, then reopen Sunday morning as Shop ‘n Save.

Cub Foods opened in January 1994 as one of the original tenants of Glen Hollow. The grocery store replaced Randall’s in Westlake Shopping Center as both stores were owned by Randall Stores of Mitchell, South Dakota, at the time. Randall’s Cub Foods stores were acquired by Minnesota-based SuperValu, Inc., in 1998. SuperValu also owns Shop ‘n Save, Save-a-Lot, Jewel-Osco, and several other chains. Cub Foods in Midtown Plaza closed in March 2009, and the space is still vacant. Save-a-Lot in Campustown closed in January of this year, and the space is currently being used by Bradley University. Glen Hollow, Midtown, and Campustown were all developed by David Joseph.

The Glen Hollow store is changing brands in order to be more competitive on prices with discount grocers such as Wal-Mart. Shop ‘n Save will offer lower prices, while still offering a mix of brand-name and private-label products.

City of Peoria

Midtown Plaza Cub Foods closing in March

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The following info just hit my mailbox while I was home for lunch:

Mr. Curt Craig from Cub Foods in Minneapolis [said] they are closing the Midtown Plaza Cub Food Store. […] This will happen the first part of March, with the last employees leaving mid-March.

You remember Midtown Plaza. The City paid $5.5 million to clear the land (including knocking down old ladies’ houses on Dechman) required to make way for this project and made the area a TIF district after rejecting their own consultant’s report that said this was a bad deal for the City. They listened to the developer’s consultants instead.

The city’s consultant (Development Strategies, Inc.) predicted, according to a Journal Star editorial on 3/9/1999, that Cub Foods “would draw 90 percent of its customers from other city grocery stores.” Joseph’s consultants (Melaniphy & Associates, Inc.; Deloitte & Touche) predicted “43 percent of revenues would come from customers living outside the city” and that Cub Foods “would draw customers from a 10-mile radius.”

The city’s consultant was right. After Cub Foods opened, Thompson’s/Sullivan’s and John Bee both closed. With the loss of Cub Foods, where are East Bluff residents supposed to go for groceries now?

Also, will the city get a refund on that TIF money from the developer?