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Buyers Emerge for Some HOWS Stores

PASADENA, Calif. — HOWS Markets, which previously said it was seeking to sell its stores, said its location here will remain open under the same banner but new ownership, while another store has been sold to Super A Foods.

PASADENA, Calif. — HOWS Markets, which previously said it was seeking to sell its stores, said its location here will remain open under the same banner but new ownership, while another store has been sold to Super A Foods.

HOWS' owners are in discussions with potential buyers for two of the three remaining stores, though all are likely to close once inventory is sold down, the company said.

The 32,000-square-foot Pasadena store is being sold to a new partnership headed by David Wolff, the "W" of HOWS — an acronym for original owners Roger Huges, who died last July; Mark Oerum; and Steve Strickler.

Super A Foods, a conventional chain catering to a Hispanic clientele, is buying the HOWS store in Torrance, Calif.