Wal-Mart working on getting groceries into Chicago

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Wal-Mart working to get fresh food flowing into city store
Retailer renovating Austin store to make room for more groceriesMay 06, 2010By Sandra M. Jones, Tribune reporterWal-Mart Stores Inc. has yet to secure the city approval necessary to build a second Chicago store, but that isn't stopping the discount chain from bringing fresh groceries into the city.
As aldermen and labor leaders sparred the past two weeks about whether to allow Wal-Mart into the Pullman Park development on the Far South Side, the company was busy securing the city's permission to turn its only Chicago store, on the other side of town, into a Supercenter that sells groceries.
The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer plans to spend $5.4 million to remodel the 150,000-square-foot discount store in Austin on the West Side to create space for a "grocery" with "fresh food," according to a building permit issued April 22 by the city and obtained by the Tribune