A new one-stop international grocery store coming soon to Glen Burnie will reflect the county's increasingly diverse ethnic community and its culinary tastes.

Fresh World International Supermarket/El Grande Supermercado will open its first Maryland store on Friday at 7927 Ritchie Highway in the Southdale Shopping Center where a Giant supermarket closed in January. The store of more than 5,000 square feet will stock Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Pakistani, Indian, Filipino, Hispanic, Thai and Malaysian food under one roof.

"We've been looking for a long time to get a market like that in the Glen Burnie area," said Ben Hur,...