On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 21:21:27 -0600, wrote in


Needless to say, I no longer buy stuff there,

Probably a lot of other people feel that same way. That's why the
stuff on the shelf is so old.

The big box stores are killing the local mom/pop places.
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