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Wegmans to expand into Newton

Store will be among company’s smallest, and its third in Mass.

By Jenn Abelson and Johnny Diaz

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 06, 2011

Wegmans Food Markets Inc., the family-run New York chain grocery store popular for its low-prices and wealth of food items, will open a supermarket in Newton directly across from The Mall at Chestnut Hill, the company said yesterday. The Rochester, N.Y.-based company recently opened in Northborough - the first in Massachusetts and the largest supermarket in the Bay State. That store is 138,000 square feet with more than 70,000 items.

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