Business & Tech

Save Mart Closure Blamed On Economy, Competition

Corporate leader issues statement on decision.

Save Mart officials blamed the tough ongoing economic situation and competition from other stores for their decision to close the Calaveras Boulevard store.

Woody Hunter, vice president of coastal operations for Save Mart, issued the attached statement about the decision.

Save Mart bought the store in 1989, after it originally opened as a Fry's Store in 1978, according to Hunter.

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