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King Soopers just closed a 50,000 sq ft store three blocks from me & opened a new 100,000 sq ft store five blocks down the road. This store is gigantic! The dairy spreads across most of the back of the store so if you forget something, it's a trek to go get it. If you walked the length of the store & back eight times, I'll bet you'd clock a mile. Amazingly, the smaller Safeway store across the street, which was on life support, is doing better now cuz a lot of people find the new store too big.

Years ago I read a story of a woman who bought an old food truck & turned it into produce truck. She stocked it as full as she could & drove to the inner city where she'd read they don't have access to fresh produce. She was swamped!! And some of the women told their boys to stay & "Make sure no one bothers the produce lady cuz we want her to come back!" What she thought would last for eight hours, she sold out in three. I wish there were a follow up to that story.