Top Foods to cut hours

Beginning Sunday night, Shoreline Top Foods will no longer be a 24-hour store. On Sunday night, it will close at 11 am for the first time in the store's existence, and reopen on Monday morning at 6 am.

According to store employees, new CEO Jim Donald weighed the sales for the 11 pm to 6 am time period against the theft rate and concluded that the company would be best served by shorter hours.

"We are sorry to inconvenience our middle of the night shoppers," but hope to use the savings to make improvements elsewhere.

The Edmonds store will also cut its hours to 6 am - 11 pm. The Safeway stores in North City and 155th and Aurora, which were previously 24-hour stores, are open from 5 am to 1 am.

Top Foods is owned by the Haggen family of Bellingham and has 33 stores in the Pacific Northwest.