(So Cal Metro)Shoppers in California, Arizona and Nevada should keep an eye out for disappearing grocery stores, after the Fresh & Easy chain announced it’d be closing 50 stores in the three states and redesigning the rest. That’s about a third of its total stores after emerging from bankruptcy under new ownership in the fall of 2013. A spokesman for the chain said it’ll sell 30 of those stores in Southern California, with the rest of the 20 locations sprinkled in the other two states, reports the Los Angeles Times. Those locations “do not meet the criteria of Fresh & Easy’s model of modern convenience,” the spokesman said, while the rest of the 167 total stores will undergo a makeover. The company is also working with the designers behind the Apple store for a new food convenience store concept. Fresh & Easy Chief Executive Jeff Keyes announced the news first in a YouTube video, according to CBS Los Angeles, which appears to longer be available. He reportedly said in the video that the company had identified about 50 locations that “we truly believe are better suited to a a different type of retail,” noting that many of those would be closing in the next few weeks. Fresh & Easy entered the grocery arena in 2007 as a Tesco brand, before going through bankruptcy proceedings in 2013 and emerging with Yucaipa as its new owner.

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