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Nov 05, 2007 - ... at Fresh & Easy store. British retailer Tesco held an unannounced "soft opening"of its Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market store in Hemet on Nov. 1. ...
British retailer Tesco held an unannounced "soft opening" of its Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market store in Hemet on Nov. 1.
The store is now open for business in a commercial plaza at the southwest corner of Florida and Lyon avenues.
Five other Fresh & Easy stores in Southern California, including one in Upland, are slated to have their grand openings Thursday.
The stores, about 10,000 square feet in size, offer prepared and ready-to-heat meals, organic and private-label offerings, and grocery staples.
Tesco plans to open 48 Inland Fresh & Easy stores by the end of 2009, in the first wave of more than 100 planned for California, Arizona and Nevada.
Local Business Briefs - 10/20
10:00 PM PDT on Friday, October 19, 2007
INLAND
Hundreds apply for Fresh & Easy jobs
Almost 1,000 people applied for 170 positions at the first six Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Stores slated to open in Southern California on Nov. 8. British retailer Tesco said in a statement that all of the six locations have been staffed, including stores in Hemet and Upland.
More than half of the new employees live within three miles of the stores, all are working more than 20 hours per week and more than 40 percent are full-time, the statement said.
Three workers have been promoted to management-level positions.
Tesco announced last month it plans to open at least 48 Inland locations of Fresh & Easy by 2009, in 33 cities.
Its first wave of U.S. stores includes more than 100 locations in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada.
LOU HIRSH
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Tesco is going to open a Fresh and Easy Market in Grand Terrace. All that has been in the paper now twice. The information is limited to being on the "Corner of Mt. Vernon and Barton Rd. While this description would fit logically that the Fresh and Easy Market would be moving into the Stater Brothers Market as Jack Brown has a month to month lease and has not been interested in continuing a lease option in that location.
However, there is a single land owner of the area where, The USMail, Radio Car Race Track, the Barbershop Strip Mall, and even the Little House is owned by a single individual who has recently listed the property on the Corner of Mt. Vernon and Barton Rd "Except for Starbucks" as being available for Lease and Construction to fit tenant. So, there are two options for the location of the Tesco Fresh and Easy Market.
There is no information of which it is. Perhaps even CVS would sell their lease as their business isn't quite what they expected... Perhaps a third option.
Well, I hope the small businesses in the Strip Mall, Blue Mt Framers, Bead Shop, Mortgage Shop, Ice Cream Shop, La Tierra and the Chiropractor, and the Radio Controlled Race Track all have fall back plans when their landlord sells, or terminates their leases. These small often family citizen owned businesses will find it difficult to move to a new location and stay viable. Just as there is a need for a range of rental or home prices, businesses need to have a range of prices and options in order to break even and support their employees and the owners.
Let's Hope, that the landlords in GT have this in mind when they Develop their property. Let's hope that Tesco can see it is better to move into an empty Grocery Store Spot, and start a business, than to Build a New Spot, have Stater's Mega Store and possibly a Cardenas to compete with all in the same market. It would be interesting if that happened.
However, the site traffic pattern would offer challenges as Parking and Entrance and Egress to a Large High Traffic business may be problematic, but no doubt in Grand Terrace traffic won't be an issue that would kill a development.
Strong Small Local Businesses are good for the Sustainable Community. The more times a dollar circulates inside the community the better. It would be fantastic if a store in Grand Terrace, sold product made or grown in Grand Terrace, this would add to sustainability.
