A company spokesman tells Oregonian the stores in Gresham, Milwaukie were underperforming.
BY JACOB PALMER | DIGITAL NEWS EDITOR
Two Portland-area Safeway stores — one in Milwaukie and one in Gresham — will close their doors by August 28.
A company spokesman told the Oregonian the stores were underperforming.
The shuttering of the Gresham leaves residents with few healthy options nearby.
“There are a lot of families in Rockwood that relied on Safeway for their essentials, and it’s yet another store to go away. It’s a gut punch,” said Josh Fuhrer, executive director of the Gresham Redevelopment Commission.
Since the mid-1990s, four major grocery chains have closed in the area, and other chains haven’t shown interest to selling groceries to tens of thousands of potential customers, he said.
(SOURCE: OregonLive.com)
Residents in northwest Gresham suffer from low wages and the struggles of eating healthily, according to a Multnomah County official quoted by the Oregonian.
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