Grocery Outlet supermarket to close 8 Maryland stores

MARYLAND (WBFF) — Grocery Outlet supermarket plans to close eight of its Maryland stores, less than four years after the California-based chain began opening them here.

The company will close its stores in Rosedale, Catonsville, Cockeysville, Columbia, Overlea, Owings Mills, Westminster and Hagerstown. It’s part of Grocery Outlet Holding Corporation’s announcement earlier this week that it will shut down 36 “financially underperforming” stores, about half of them on the East Coast.

The chain, known as Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, made a big splash in the Baltimore area in 2022, when it announced it would move into the Milford Mill space formerly occupied by Giant Food.

At the time Baltimore County government put $2 million, part of it from federal COVID-related funds, toward revitalizing the Milford Mill Shopping Center. Former County Executive Johnny Olszewski thanked Grocery Outlet at the time for its commitment to expanding “healthy food access” and revitalizing “this critical economic area and beyond.”

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