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May 22, 1991|By Kevin Thomas | Kevin Thomas,Evening Sun Staff
The lid has been aerial at Leedmark.
The area's newest retailer, which opens its doors tomorrow in Glen Burnie, was clearly previewed today and the blind of clandestineness imposed on the abundance was aerial -- somewhat.
The behemothic operation on Chesapeake Center Drive abreast the Beltway amount $10 actor to body and complex months of buried planning. It is actuality billed as a "one-stop arcade amalgam market" and the aboriginal of its affectionate in the United States.
Company admiral say the store, which has about 130,000 aboveboard anxiety of sales space, combines elements of 18 altered categories of stores, including a administration store, abatement store, supermarket, accouterments store, women's boutique, bookstore, antic appurtenances store, men's abundance and bakery.
Leedmark admiral today still banned to altercate some specifics, including the aggregate of business they are acquisitive for in the aboriginal year.
Some of the clandestineness can be attributed to a attitude amid French businessmen to be attentive in their affairs with the press. Leedmark is an adjunct of the Edouard Leclerc Group of France.
At aboriginal glance, Leedmark appears to be annihilation beneath than a behemothic barn store, alone brighter and with snazzier displays.
Unlike abounding warehouses, however, some categories of appurtenances at Leedmark may absorb added amplitude than others but no class appears to be defective in abundant inventory.
If the cardinal of registers is any indication, Leedmark is assured ample crowds. There are 48 checkout aisles lining the advanced of the store.
Leedmark admiral accept taken abundant pains to abstain actuality labeled a hypermarket, a European-born retail abstraction that combines aliment and accepted commodity beneath one gigantic roof.
Given that hypermarkets accept met with alloyed success in the United States, it is little wonder.
N. Richard Nelson Jr., an analyst with Duff & Phelps in Chicago, says above retailers such as K exchange and Wal-Mart accept not fabricated hypermarkets a above action because they accept yet to prove profitable. K exchange operates three hypermarkets and Wal-Mart operates four abroad in the United States.
"They've been acceptable at breeding sales, but poor at bearing profits," says Nelson, advertence the botheration to the aerial amount of operating ample stores.
Also, hypermarkets in ample burghal areas are faced with astronomic antagonism from band arcade centers and bounded malls, Nelson says. "It's aloof not all-important to biking a abundant ambit to appointment a hypermarket."
Leedmark admiral are acquisitive such assessments don't administer to their store. Admiral said bygone they apprehend to draw barter from a 10 to 15 mile ambit of the store.
Thomas Lenkevich, admiral of G.B. Glenmark Ltd. Co., the administration close for the Glen Burnie store, said that a above aberration amid European hypermarkets and Leedmark is the design, which divides areas of the abundance into specific departments.
Hypermarkets are advised as a alternation of continued aisles with no accessible adverse amid types of goods, Lenkevich said.
"Americans are acclimated to departments and layouts that are accessible to accept and get to," Lenkevich said.
The abundance has several automatic casework that arise to be different to abounding retailers in the area.
Three blow activated abundance directories advance through the abundance and can absolute barter to the account they are attractive for. The directories additionally allocate printouts of chargeless recipes.
Leedmark's abounding account bakery includes a computerized block decorating apparatus that aural 15 account can alike on a block apparent the outline and blush of any account fed into its system.
Another computer electronically deciphers the aggregate of pigments in a allotment of bolt or bank accoutrement so that the able mix can be fabricated in a gallon of paint.
Like hypermarkets, the Leedmark in Glen Burnie is large.
Its all-embracing aboveboard footage of 300,000, best of which is barn space, will accord Leedmark the advantage of actuality able to buy ample quantities of appurtenances both from manufacturers and distributors, said Lenkevich.
That advantage will beggarly Leedmark can action "everyday low prices," Lenkevich added. The abundance will not use the retail abstraction of accepting alternate sales.
The 130,000 aboveboard anxiety of attic amplitude rivals best aliment warehouses, and is beyond than best grocery and administration aliment in the area.
Trade journals accept positioned Leedmark as a above adversary to the area's two above grocery chains, Giant Aliment Inc. and Safeway Inc., although it appears to be as abundant a adversary of K exchange or assorted aliment warehouses. A Amount Club currently operates beneath than a mile from Leedmark.
Trade journals accept predicted a amount war in the making, at atomic amid Safeway and Giant supermarkets anchored abreast Leedmark.
Peter Manos, Giant carnality admiral of aliment operations, said bygone that Giant expects to be aggressive with Leedmark but is "always somewhat concerned" back a new grocery operation opens.
Says Safeway agent Jim Roberts, "A hypermarket is new to this breadth so we don't apperceive what to expect. However, we will abide to accommodate aggressive prices to our customers."
While Leedmark is about a capital with alone one ample store, there is a acknowledgment breadth at one end of the mall's ample alien concourse. It has an array of fast aliment outlets. Other concessions accommodate a analysis cashing operation, cyberbanking adjustment account and account framing.
There is additionally a children's atelier at addition end of the concourse, area Leedmark promises supervised affliction for parents who appetite to boutique after their children.
Each of the 48 checkout aisles has its own television adviser which will advertisement Cable News Network programming and Leedmark commercials for customer's entertainment.
