Giant Eagle closes 4 GetGo c-stores in Indianapolis

Giant Eagle-owned GetGo Café Market closed four convenience stores in Indianapolis at the close of business on Monday and has sold the locations to an undisclosed buyer or buyers, the retailer said.

“After a careful evaluation of our business, these stores had unique challenges that made it difficult to maintain our high standards and our food-first approach,” Brandon Daniels, GetGo public relations manager, said in a statement provided to CSP Daily News. “As such, we made the difficult decision to sell these stores.”

He would not elaborate on those challenges.

The company gave all employees the option to transfer to other GetGo locations in the surrounding area, and most of them accepted the opportunity to stay with GetGo, he said.

The four stores “will reopen under new management in the next week or two,” Daniels added.

The stores all offered BP-branded fuel, and the new owners will retain the BP brand after the sale, he said.

An attorney for the buyers did not respond to a CSP request for comment by posting time.

GetGo now has nine locations remaining in Marion County, as well as more in the Indianapolis metropolitan area, according to WISH-TV, which first reported the closures and sale.

Pittsburgh-based GetGo, a division of supermarket retailer Giant Eagle Inc., operates more than 260 c-stores in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, northern West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana.

Giant Eagle launched the convenience store banner in 2002, after entering into a partnership with the owner of Crossroads c-stores. It converted 27 Crossroads stores to the GetGo brand. 

This story was originally published in WGB sister publication CSP Daily News.