Wal-Mart is expanding again in Colorado Springs.
The world’s largest retailer, which has nine supercenters and two Sam’s Club warehouse stores in the Pikes Peak region, says it will build two Wal-Mart Market grocery stores — which are much smaller than a supercenter — in Colorado Springs that will open in mid-2012.
The stores are the first Wal-Mart Markets planned in Colorado, said Josh Phair, a company spokesman in Denver. Earlier this year, Wal-Mart officials said they planned to develop hundreds of the smaller stores around the country as a way to boost sales.
The Springs Wal-Mart Markets will be about 50,000 square feet each, making them close in size to a Safeway or King Soopers. One will be built as a free-standing store near the northwest corner of Academy Boulevard and Chelton Road; the other will open at the existing Murray Square shopping center, northeast of Platte Avenue and Murray Boulevard, in a space vacated by King Soopers in early 2006.
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