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Wal-Mart to Open Grocery Store In Somerville

The huge retail company will open its first Northeast grocery store in Assembly Square, according to the Boston Globe.

Wal-Mart, known for its giant mega-stores and low prices, is opening a grocery store in Somerville's Assembly Square, the Boston Globe reports.

The Somerville location will constitute Wal-Mart's first grocery store in the Northeast, according to the Globe.

The company is expected to move into the former Circuit City space on Mystic Avenue, the Globe reports.

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This location is next to the Assembly Square

What's coming to Somerville is not a typical Wal-Mart store, one of those huge warehouse-like places where one can buy electronics, tools, camping gear, clothes and almost anything else.

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Rather, Wal-Mart Market, as the grocery store will be called, is strictly a food store.

Read the Boston Globe article here.


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