date:Aug 27, 2012
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By 1980, seven Kwik-Pic stores had opened around town along with a Convenient Food Mart and the first E-Z Shop.
While not traditional groceries, they would sell enough milk, bread, soft drinks, beer, cigarettes and other products to pull revenues from both supermarkets and liquor stores. Thornton's and others would follow.
In 1990, a Buehler's Buy-Low opened in the then-new Gardenside shopping center, while Sav-a-Lot was operating a discount grocery in a former Sureway on South Green.
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