Commerce-based grocery retailer Smart & Final LLC plans a Feb. 17 opening for its new Smart & Final Extra store at 150 B Ave. in Coronado.
This is the first of 11 former Haggen Inc. stores in San Diego County that Smart & Final will be converting to its own value-oriented, warehouse-style format. Smart & Final last year acquired a total of 33 former Haggen store leases out of that company’s bankruptcy-related sell-off, for approximately $68 million.
A Smart & Final statement said the 25,540-square-foot Coronado store will include frozen, deli and meat selections, a full fresh-produce section, and a selection of organic, natural and private-label food offerings. Goods are tailored to business and household customers, with products offered in a broad range of sizes.
Smart & Final operates 10 current stores in the local market, with a non-membership warehouse format. The company was founded in 1914 and taken public in 2014 by its current largest shareholder, private investment firm Ares Management.
As of early December 2015, Smart & Final operated 218 stores in three states and employed approximately 11,000.
