Alfalfa’s Market to close flagship store in Boulder

BOULDER — Alfalfa’s Market will shutter its flagship store, ending almost 38 years of life on one of the city’s main strips after the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forced one of its core business operations to stop.

The market at 1651 Broadway in downtown Boulder will begin a sale on Friday and will close next week depending on the outcome of that clearance.

In an interview, Alfalfa’s president Mark Homlish said the store’s cafe and prepared-foods department had been shuttered since the start of the pandemic, as it catered mainly to preparing meals for Boulder High School, the University of Colorado Boulder and…