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Price Cutter Plus, Springfield, Mo.Best Overall Store Design Conventional Format (new ground-up construction, over 50,000 sq. ft.)Store Designer: Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG)/Design and Décor Source Group, Kansas City, Kan.

The Market by Longo’sBest Overall Store Design/Urban Format (new ground-up construction, under 50,000 sq. ft.)Store Designer: Watt International Inc., Toronto Ont.

Bing’s Supermarket, Sedalia, Mo.Best Low-cost Remodel (less than $2 million) – Communi-ty-based FormatStore Designer: Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG)/Design and Décor Source Group, Kansas City, Kan.

Super 1 Food & Pharmacy, Shreveport, La.Best Low-cost Remodel (less than $2 million) – Value FormatStore Designer: Brookshire Grocery Co., Tyler, Texas

Glorioso’s Italian Market, Milwaukee, Wis.Best Low-cost Remodel (less than $2 million) – Urban FormatStore Designer: Mehmert Store Services, Sussex, Wis.

Ray’s Apple Market, Manhattan, Kan.Best Mid-budget Remodel ($2 million to $5 million) – Community-based FormatStore Designer: Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG)/Design and Décor Source Group, Kansas City, Kan.

Bistro Market by Price Cutter, Springfield, Mo.Best Mid-budget Remodel ($2 million to $5 million) – Urban FormatStore Designer: Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG)/Design and Décor Source Group, Kansas City, Kan.

Lakeview Grocery, New Orleans, La.Best Mid-budget Remodel ($2 million to $5 million) – Community-focused Conventional FormatStore Designer: King Retail Solutions, Eugene, Ore.

Runner-Up: Brookshire’s Food & Pharmacy, E. Fifth Street, Tyler, TexasBest Mid-budget Remodel ($2 million to $5 million) – Community-focused Conventional FormatStore Designer: Brookshire Grocery Co., Tyler, Texas

Exito del Este, El Tesoro, ColombiaBest Overall Store Design – International/Hypermarket Format (new ground-up construction, under 50,000- square-feet)Store Designer: Watt International, Inc., Toronto Ont.

1st Place: Calgary Co-Op Quarry Park Centre, CalgaryBest Overall Store Design – International/Conventional Format (new ground-up construction, under 50,000- square-feet)Store Designer: King Retail Solutions, Eugene, Ore.

applauds a new collection of Store Design Contest award winners, whose innovative, functional masterworks profiled on the fol-lowing pages provide a closer look at 11 of the industry’s most engaging and inspiring concept supermarkets.

From downtown Milwaukee to a New Orleans neighborhood struggling to re-cover from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina and various locales in between, 11 grocery stores that set the standard for overall excellence are showcased on the following pages of ’s second annual Store Design Contest.

Five categories — including two for new ground-up construction, as well as three budget levels for remodeling projects ranging from modest to unlimited — gave operators of every shape and size a chance to be recognized in the following classes:

Best Overall Store Design (new ground-up construction, under 50,000-square-feet)

Best Overall Store Design (new ground-up construction, over 50,000-square-feet)

Best Low-cost Remodel (less than $2 million) Best Mid-budget Remodel ($2 million to $5 million) “Sky’s the Limit” Remodel (more than $5 million)

Construction of eligible store designs and remodels must have been completed between January 2010 and December 2010.

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Best Overall Store Design/International-Hypermarket(new ground-up construction, under 50,000 square feet)

Exito del Este el T e Soro, ColoM bi a

Store DeSigner Watt International Inc., Toronto

W ith more than 86 hypermarket loca-tions in Colombia, Exito is one of the largest retail chains in Latin America.

Working alongside the Exito design team, the store design pros from Watt International Inc., developed a retail format that is a tangible expression of the store’s brand positioning: fresh, gourmet, surprising and innovative.

A concept store in every sense, the 46,000-square-foot Exito del Este compact hyper-market is designed to improve operating productiv-ity while offering customers an unmatched shopping experience. Inspiring destination zones include an upscale fresh market showcasing seasonal offer-ings, fashion, electronics and housewares, along with cooking demonstrations led by professional chefs preparing gourmet meals for customers. Electronic signage throughout the store increases shopper dwell time by delivering targeted messages to customers, such as product information, pricing and recipes.

Throughout the design process, many steps

were taken to ensure the new store would be environmentally friendly, foremost being LED lights installed throughout the store, non-pollutant and fume-free paints for the food gondolas, eco-friendly refrigeration systems with energy-saving regulat-ing valves, and biodegradable packaging for all prepared foods.

The new store, located in a shopping mall within a wealthy neighborhood, was conceptualized to be the “store of the future” and function as the flagship store for Exito with a format that offers solutions, as opposed to products, vis-à-vis an innovative hub.

Within the alcoholic beverage section, touchscreens highlight wine and meal pairings, as well as suggest recipes that pair well with specific beverages. Additionally, all cash wraps have two screens installed: one for the cashier and one for the customer, to round out the interactivity of the entire store experience.

Designed to stay as true to its forerunning 100,000-sqaure-foot format as possible, the new store format had a main objective of helping »40

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Exito align its stores with a recent brand refresh at the same time as the unveil-ing of the new upscale compact supermarket.

Wood paneling that wraps from the floor up to the ceiling is used throughout the store to highlight the various service points and help customers navigate around departments.The merchandise displays throughout the store showcase Exito’s gourmet offering; for example, fruits and vegetables are cut open on shelf so customers can see the insides of the products. Vivid in-store graphics help impart excitement for its target higher-deomgraphic Colombian customers, who are in turn vigorously embracing Exito’s new format. Cognizant that a novel, fresh design for an exciting small-format store launch was es-sential in courting higher end shoppers, the store design team found that simply paring down the amount of merchandise would have likely otherwise greatly hampered the desired result of the design project.

Additionally, Exito del Este’s fresh foods, which comprise 19 percent of sales for the entire store, vs. 13 percent of sales for the larger hypermarket format, have also well exceeded expectations, adding another winning touch to this impressive international showstopper.

exito DeL eSteBest Overall Store Design/ International-Conventional(new ground-up construction, under 50,000 square feet)

Calgary Co-Op Quarry Park Centre Calgary, alberTa

The Calgary Co-op Quarry Park Centre supermarket is the newest addi-tion to a chain of more than 23 food stores. As part of a 5.7-hectare regional shopping center in southeast Calgary, the new store is the

greenest in the Calgary Co-op grocery chain and includes several environment-saving technologies encompassing equipment, LED lighting and comprehensive recycling programs. In addition to its grocery offerings, the store also features an in-store pharmacy, mezzanine-level café seating and a children’s play area.

While the initial design strategy sought to depict the interior space as a modern design, the architect’s exterior renderings captured a more classical European façade reminiscent of historic Canadian architecture used for grand hotels. To harmonize disparate architectural themes, King Retail Solutions (KRS) created a unique “modern chateau” design concept that fused old and new