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NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleOpinionUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals Then and Now: The famed Co-op and other grocery stores along West Street in Gardner City has three supermarkets today, but 60 years ago there were four within a quarter of a mile of each other downtown Mike Richard Special for The Gardner News At the present time there are three supermarkets in Gardner – Hannaford, Price Chopper and the Walmart Supercenter. However, if you go back 60 years ago, there were four supermarkets within a quarter of a mile in the downtown Gardner area alone. And that doesn’t even count the more than three dozen mom and pop corner stores that also inhabited that section of the city. ....