Florida-based high-end supermarket chain Publix will take over 10 Martin’s Food Markets stores in the Richmond region.

The remaining nine stores would operate for six months to a year until those locations can be sold. But Martin’s does not expect to operate them a year from now, the company announced Wednesday night.

The plan calls for Publix to close the stores they are buying on a rolling basis to renovate and overhaul them, hire new employees and reopen the locations.

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