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supermarket chain primarily located in the
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, formerly having had locations in
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and
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. It was founded in 2002 by David Min Sik Kang, a Korean-American entrepreneur who originally owned small Korean grocery stores in
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Grand Mart was owned by
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. Depending on the location of the store, it also offers varying amounts of Asian,
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and traditional
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groceries. Some stores advertise in the
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media as "Mercado Grande," and have signs in English, Spanish and Korean. Nevertheless, all New Grand Mart supermarkets retain a strong Korean flavor, which include in-store Korean
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and video rental shops which rent out
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Locations


Grand Mart

Grand Mart's final store to open in the Washington area opened in
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in 2013. In mid-2008, Grand Mart closed its Security Square Mall location, the only store it had in the Baltimore area. In October 2014, Grand Mart closed its Frederick location. Grand Mart attempted to expand outside of the Washington area, including more locations in Georgia and North Carolina, and planned stores in
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and New York. In
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, it purchased eight former
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locations. However, the Grand Mart format was not successful in the Chicago area, and the four stores that were opened ( Bedford Park, Chicago, Melrose Park and Niles) subsequently closed.
A reference to the Niles Grand Mart closing is in
After the closure of the Chicago-area Grand Mart stores, plans for downstate independent grocer
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to expand into the Chicago market by acquiring several of the shuttered Grand Mart stores fell through. The Chicago location (at North and Cicero Avenues) is now a
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store while the Bedford Park location is now an
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. The Melrose Park location later became a
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(which closed on June 17, 2017) and the Niles location is now a Fresh Farms Market.


New Grand Mart

New Grand Mart has stores in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., most of which are targeted primarily toward the
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community, which is concentrated heavily in Fairfax and Montgomery counties.


Maryland

* Langley Park * New Carrollton


Virginia

*
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