An old name in the local supermarket business — Piggly Wiggly — is expanding here once again after virtually disappearing in the 1990s.
The Butera family has struck a deal to buy a 62,000-square-foot Dominick's in Buffalo Grove and plans to convert the shuttered grocery store into a Piggly Wiggly, real estate sources said. It is the first Dominick's purchase by Elgin-based Butera Finer Foods Inc., which operates nine local groceries under the Butera Market name.
Yet the Buteras, who own the Chase Plaza shopping center surrounding the supermarket at 1160 W. Lake Cook Road, don't plan to convert the store into a Butera Market. Paul Butera Sr., chairman and president of the grocery chain, is turning it into a Piggly Wiggly as part of a larger push by the brand in the Chicago market.
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