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Originally Posted by secondcurve
Hazelnut:
Trust me. This is small for the grocery business. $10-20 million for three stores? Maybe less? Who knows, but in any event 3-stores is tiny for this industry. I will note that there are hardly any small chains left in NE.
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True that it isn't exactly huge but I guess we are both nitpicking here. The point I was trying to make is that this store hardly qualifies as a local mom and pop shop that can be compared with one of the local homegrown businesses. This was an operation with multiple stores! The FACT is that they had high prices. An organization came along and put them out of business. Simple economics. I just don't see where some people have lamented this as if this were Moulton Farms or Winnipesaukee Bagels or The Village Kitchen or Heaths or...... etc. They are absolutely not the same thing.