Schnucks Buys Columbia Centre Market Place

Schnuck Markets Inc. has purchased the Columbia Centre Market Place, a 25-year-old grocery in Columbia, Ill.

The store will close at noon Sunday, Jan. 12 and will reopen as a Schnucks store at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16.

Schnucks, the Maryland Heights-based grocer with about 100 stores, said it will meet with the store’s 70 employees about job opportunities with the chain.

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