Haggen Northwest Fresh Closing Shoreline Store: Report

Editor's note: Original story posted at 6:46 a.m. This updates with details on other Haggen store closures.

Just a year after it was remodeled and rebranded as Haggen Northwest Fresh, the grocery store at 1201 N. 175th Street in Shoreline is slated for closure, according to a published report.

The revamped Haggen, formerly TOP Food & Drug, made its Shoreline debut Aug. 1, 2012. But the Bellingham-based chain said it couldn’t turn around the Shoreline location, or its remodeled Bellevue store.

“Instead of closing these stores when they were struggling as TOP branded stores, we decided to do all we could do to try and turn these stores around,” co-president Clement Stevens said in a news release, according to The Seattle Times. “We invested in both remodeling and rebranding, dedicating our collective resources to give these locations one last chance. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we were unable to turn these stores around.”

The store is expected to close in the next six to eight weeks, the Times reported.

The Bellingham Herald reported that Haggen has closed three other stores so far this year in Tacoma, Lacey and Federal Way.

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