Supermarket history question

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Originally Posted by ApS

...and three hardware stores within a stone's throw of each other. (Back in the day when even part time residents knew how to fix things!)

We shopped at Stinchfield's which I recall replaced Benjamin Franklin's 5 & 10. (Later, Stinchfield's became a "package store" around 1959).

Stinchfield's grocery was there first and the family replaced it with the 5&10.