46 Bottom Dollar Grocery Stores In Philadelphia Set To Close On January 15
By Pat Loeb
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Customers have less than two weeks left to shop at Bottom Dollar Food stores. The company says all 46 stores in the Philadelphia area will close January 15th.
Bottom Dollar announced in November that the stores would be closing in early 2015 because its parent company is retiring the brand. Now, it has settled on a date less than two weeks away.
Rival grocery chain Aldi has bought all the Bottom Dollar stores but has not committed to re-opening them or to rehiring any of the 2,200 employees who will be laid off. Aldi said Friday that those employees will receive severance pay, and some will get job counseling.
The closings are also bad news for thousands of customers. Many of the stores are located in communities with few other grocery options and the closings will return them to "food desert" status.
Bottom Dollar is operated by Delhaize America, a North Carolina-based subsidiary of Belgian parent company Delhaize Group.
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