[Sca-cooks] shop locally

[Mark Hendershott]

At 10:56 AM 3/30/2007, Malkin wrote:
>we have a butcher shop ... that is where one takes ones deer, eld, or moose
>to be cut up if one does not want to do that one's self.  Sell beef,. pork
>or chicken there?  nope
>
>We have a produce stand too ... every other thursday out the back of a big
>yellow truck
>
>Hardware? nope.
>
>Local resterants, two or three in the family-owned.  One Chinese, one
>Mexican and one Amercan.
>
>Our options are Smiths for groceries, Pamida for sundries, McDonalds or Taco
>Time for fast food, Dominos and Pizza Hut for delivery and Ace for Hardware.

Ace Hardware is a franchise.  I understand the stores to be locally 
owned.  Ace provides advertising, wholesale purchasing and other 
services to aid the local
store owner in competing with the chains such as Lowe's.  True Value 
is another such franchise.

Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir

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