If Hy-Vee has its way, the grocery chain’s first two Twin Cities stores set to open in September will be the beginning of a long-term shake-up of the area’s supermarket business.

Des Moines-based Hy-Vee’s quest is to eventually make Minneapolis-St. Paul its top market by sales volume, bigger than its hometown operations and current No. 1 metro area of Kansas City, Mo.

“We see this is as being our largest market some day,” Hy-Vee CEO Randy Edeker told the Star Tribune in an interview Friday. “Over the next 10 years, we see steady growth here.”

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