REVERE, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) -- It's a grocery-store-opening-palooza in the Boston area with a new supermarket opening in Revere and another in Burlington.
A new Market Basket will open in Revere Sunday, according to the Boston Globe. Earlier this year, the company was making headlines due to an ongoing power struggle that led to employees walking off the job and customers shopping elsewhere. It also prevented the Revere store from being opened even though the building had been finished for a while. However, the store's operations manager told the Globe that "business has been healthy."
About 475 workers were recently hired to staff the store that was full of product Friday, with the exception of fish and meat that will be stocked over the weekend, the Globe reported.
Market Basket will expand their business again in early November by opening a small supermarket in Littleton and then a 90,000 square-foot store in Waltham the following month. The next two stores will be opened in Attleboro and Athol next year.
Wegmans is opening in Burlington Sunday. The chain includes 85 stores, but this will be the its third in the Bay State. Scott Latham, an associate professor of management in UMass Lowell's Manning School of Business, told the Lowell Sun that Wegmans is like Market Basket in that it's family-run and almost 100 years old, but the stores are targeting different customers. The competitors that should be concerned are Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Roche Brothers.
Expect traffic delays if you plan to head to Wegmans Sunday as a large turnout is expected. The director of media relations for the supermarket told the Sun that they had 25,500 people check out when the Northboro store opening in 2011.
The store is about 135,000 square-feet and features two floors with a cart-conveyer system, a Market Cafe, coffee shop and mezzanine for diners, wine section, gift and house wares shop, Mediterranean bar, parking garage and more. Their Family Pack items are a large attraction as they can save shoppers about 30 percent.
Latham told the Sun that the store resembles a European grocer.