Hispanic supermarket with deli, bakery will replace this Kansas City area grocery store
El Mercado Fresco, a locally owned Hispanic supermarket chain, will soon open a location in Gladstone.
The new grocer will take over Gladstone Supermarket at 6599 N. Oak Trafficway. It’s estimated to open in the spring.
Gladstone Supermarket will close when El Mercado Fresco takes possession of the building sometime in February, said the Hispanic chain’s owner, Eddie Musallet. Gladstone Supermarket has been open for about a year.
Before that, Save A Lot held a location there for several years. It closed in July 2023 after its owners with Value Grocers LLC closed it due to “general business decline.”
El Mercado Fresco has seven stores across the metro, serving Mexican and Hispanic dry goods, deli products, bakery items and more.
Its locations include ones at 2620 Independence Ave., 3500 Blue Ridge Cutoff and 6859 Longview Road.
Another location is on its way in Olathe at 808 Old Highway 56 in about five months, Musallet said. It will be the first in Johnson County. That location will have a Frutopia, a Mexican ice cream shop brand.
Musallet also opened international grocery store World Fresh Market in a former Walmart Neighborhood Market at 10303 Metcalf Ave.