The former

Harris Teeter grocery store in Peachtree City will indeed become a Kroger.

The Peachtree

City Council approved a new alcohol license for the store at the request

of Kroger officials. Russell Stewart of Kroger said the former Harris

Teeter store, at the Peachtree Crossings shopping center, will have a

"soft opening" Thursday followed by a grand reopening two or

three weeks later.

Kroger purchased

a handful of Harris Teeter stores in metro Atlanta several weeks ago.

Time is of

the essence to get the store reopened so shoppers used to patronizing

the store aren't inconvenienced, Stewart noted.

Councilman

Dan Tennant had asked if the company planned to abandon the store at a

later date. Stewart said the company plans to keep the store at its current

location.

With the recent

addition of Harry's in a Hurry at The Avenue in Peachtree City, that leaves

Peachtree City with five grocery stores not including the Publix that's

under construction on Ga. Highway 74 south.

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