Article: Chain puts lots of stock in new grocery outlet.(Business)(The national Save-A-Lot opens a store in Springfield today, offering a wide variety of its limited goods)

Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard

SPRINGFIELD - Frill-free grocery shopping gets a new face with today's opening of the area's first outlet of Save-A-Lot - a national "edited assortment" chain that focuses on the high points of its customers' grocery lists.

"Even though we're limited assortment, we still provide a pretty wide range of products," company spokeswoman Jaime Folsom said Wednesday while offering a sneak peak of the store at 42nd and Main streets, which will open at 8 a.m. today.

She offered the produce department as an example. Located just inside the store's front door, it offers items such as tomatillos, mangoes and papayas ...

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