WinCo buys land for new Layton grocery store

LAYTON — WinCo Foods, a regional discount supermarket chain, plans to build a new, 95,000-square-foot grocery store at 144 S. Fort Lane Village.

In Utah, WinCo has other stores in Midvale, Orem, West Valley City, Ogden and Roy.

WinCo, which employs 13,000 people and has 71 stores nationwide, began in Idaho and has expanded to Washington, California, Nevada and Oregon, as well as Utah.

The store emphasizes employee stock ownership and, in 2009, was listed as 92 on Forbes Magazine's list of 500 largest privately held companies.

The grocery chain has just finished buying nine acres of land for the new Layton store, with Mountain West Retail & Investment handling arrangements.

Senior real estate agents Adam Hawkes and Mike Medina represented Fort Lane Village, and Chad Moore represented WinCo Foods.

— Linda Thomson