Grocery chain shores up number of stores on home turf.

PositionCharlotte

Matthews-based Harris Teeter Supermarkets Inc. has seen its future, and it looks a lot like the past. The grocer, which opened its first store in Charlotte in 1936, has agreed to buy 10 stores in the population-dense Charlotte metropolitan statistical area from Winston-Salem-based Lowe's Food Stores Inc. for $26.5 million and six Harris Teeter stores. The deal, expected to close this month, is part of the company's "strategic plans to replace rural store locations with more urban locations with higher density of our target demographic groups," CEO Thomas Dickson said in a statement.

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