One week after a contentious community meeting in Englewood, during which some residents said they did not want a Save A Lot store, the low-cost grocer opened without fanfare Thursday in the site of the former Whole Foods store that closed last fall.
The supermarket at 832 W. 63rd St. saw several hundred people visit in the first few hours, Yellow Banana CEO Joe Canfield told the Sun-Times on Thursday. Yellow Banana owns and operates stores under the Save A Lot name.
After getting the public feedback at the meeting - and apparently some from people who weren't at the meeting, Canfield said - the company decided to open anyway. "We want to win the community over, but we also want to be respectful of Alderman Coleman," Canfield said at the time. "She was elected by the citizens of Englewood, and we want to be good corporate citizens."
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