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The Fresh Market will open its third Connecticut store in Guilford in late 2015.

The North Carolina-based specialty grocer says it has signed a lease for a store in Guilford Commons, a new retail project being developed near the intersection of I-95 and Boston Post Road.

The Fresh Market currently operates 169 stores in 27 states across the U.S.

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