The grocery chain handed out free food and a offered a chance for residents to talk to management Thursday. But inside the nearly empty store, shoppers were bitter.
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Beverly Cosby noted how its not just the grocery store closing – it includes a pharmacy, Veridian Credit Union and the Hy-Vee Fast & Fresh gas station.
Marquitrice Mangham never imagined that she’d open a grocery store in her hometown of Webb, Mississippi. She left in the 1990s after high school. But in 2016, she inherited her family’s farm, splitting her time between the majority-Black town of fewer than 500 people in the rural Delta and her current home in Atlanta. Webb […] The post Dollar Stores Force Local Grocery Stores to Close. This Woman Opened One Anyway. appeared first on Capital B News.
Last week, the Hy-Vee grocery store chain announced it is closing stores in three eastern Iowa communities and recently reduced operating hours at a fourth store in Des Moines. Waterloo’s