After 88 years, Walt's Food Centers is selling the business to Berkot's Super Foods, another south suburban grocery chain.

Walt's Food Centers has stores in Dyer, Beecher, Crete and Homewood. It closed its South Holland location last year.

Walt's is selling its entire grocery business and all four stores to Berkot's, which started as a single store in Mokena and has since expanded to 16 locations across the suburbs of Chicago and southern Wisconsin. An employee at the Walt's in Dyer said the stores would eventually be rebranded as Berkot's.

The sale is for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to be closed in late October or early November.

"We would like to thank the communities we did business in and the customers who have shopped at our locations over the many decades, as well as

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