Raley’s may enter urban market with smaller-format store

The Raley’s supermarket chain is exploring various sites in downtown Sacramento, Calif., for smaller-format, farmer’s-market-style stores that would serve the unique needs of urban consumers. The store would be a return to the downtown area for Raley’s, which had a supermarket in midtown during the 1980s, and the company sees new development in the area as an opportunity for expansion and growth. Read The Sacramento Bee story here