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More Farmer Jack Stores to Close in Detroit.

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Date: Saturday, December 20 2003

By Greta Guest, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 20--Farmer Jack will close more stores in metro Detroit as part of continued cost cuts at the grocery chain.

It is unclear how many stores face closure, but the Detroit-based retailer, a unit of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of Montvale, N.J., announced late Friday that it had reached a new labor agreement with its union.

Farmer Jack, which operates 106 locations in Michigan and Ohio, earlier said it would ask the union for wage concessions. Neither Farmer Jack nor

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