The Safeway store at Northeast 122nd Avenue and Glisan Street is closing.

The store will shutter on Aug. 18 due to lagging sales, according to company spokeswoman Jill McGinnis.

"Closing an underperforming store is always a tough decision, but we are focused on growing our business by being the favorite local supermarket, and running great stores where people love to shop," McGinnis said in a statement.

The Albertsons-owned company is trying to place affected employees at other stores, the spokeswoman said. "It is standard for us, when closing a store that is underperforming, to place 100 percent of the employees," McGinnis wrote.

It's the second such announcement from the grocery store chain since May, when Safeway decided to shutter its Jantzen Beach location. It's also the third major grocer closing -- Fred Meyer ceased operations at its location at Southeast 82nd Avenue and Foster Road in January.

The Northeast Portland closure leaves shoppers with few options accessible from the East 122nd Avenue and Burnside MAX Station. The parking lot of the shuttering Safeway is just a block north of the TriMet stop.

There are two WinCo Foods stores within a 20-block radius of the shuttering Safeway and a Target that sells groceries in Mall 205 to the southwest.

The Gateway Transit Center connects to a shopping complex with a Fred Meyer.

--Eder Campuzano | 503.221.4344

ecampuzano@oregonian.com