Shoppers Food to close 4 Maryland locations by October

Shoppers Food will close four Maryland locations by mid-October, the grocery store chain confirmed Thursday.

The company has locations across Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. The grocer originally launched as Jumbo Food Stores in the 1940s before being acquired by another company in 1999.

Currently, Shoppers has nearly 20 locations across the region, including seven in Baltimore.

4 Maryland Shoppers stores closing

A spokesperson for Shoppers said the following locations will close by October 11:

2286 Middlesex, 1200 Eastern Blvd., Essex, MD

2339 New Carrollton, 7790 Riverdale Rd., New Carrollton, MD

2349/2414 Waldorf, 1170 W. Smallwood Dr., Waldorf, MD

2374 Westminster, 551 Jermor Ln., Westminster, MD

The company did not give a reason for the closures, saying in a statemen