Affton Save-A-Lot Grocery Store Will Close Feb. 23
Affton area shoppers will have one less grocery option to fill their weekly shopping carts.
Storm clouds are building in the Affton-Sappington area again as another local grocery outlet is closing. The Save-A-Lot store at 10047 Gravois Rd. in Affton's Grasso Plaza shopping center is closing effective Feb. 23. The store, which is an anchor tenant in the plaza, is the latest chapter in the local grocery story in the Affton-Sappington area, following the closure of long-time neighborhood grocer, Johnny's Market, 11155 Gravois Rd. in nearby Sappington. Sappington Farmer's Market, also announced it would close its operation at 8400 Watson Rd. in Marlborough. Save-A-Lot spokesman Chon Tomlin said the Affton Save-A-Lot store wasn't meeting its goals for sales and customer traffic that showed up in a re-evaluation of the store, which …
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TLM
3:05 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
I shop at this store on a regular basis. It has the best prices on many of the items I buy. Its going to be hard to deal with this. The Grasso Plaza location is very handy for me. A replacement grocery store tenant would be good but I doubt the prices would be as reasonable. I have checked prices at Walmart, they were higher than I was used to getting at Save-A-Lot. more ›