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Rural grocers in Minnesota feel the pinch amid stiff competition


Rural grocers in Minnesota feel the pinch amid stiff competition
Minnesota supermarkets have seen increased sales during the pandemic, but small-town grocery stores haven t. 
February 20, 2021 8:00am
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But rural groceries, which perhaps needed that bump the most, did not see it.
Before the pandemic hit, a University of Minnesota Extension survey found that nearly half of grocery-store owners in towns with 2,500 or fewer residents worried their stores would close down within five years.
The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting trends of people shopping closer to home and buying local have given mom-and-pop grocers some optimism but have not erased the challenges. ....

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Preventing food deserts: Group trying to help rural grocers


Preventing food deserts: Group trying to help rural grocers
The Kansan
There is a trend of rural and small-town grocery stores in Kansas closing, and a group called the Rural Grocery Initiative has noticed.
“Over a 10-year period, from 2008 to 2018, we tracked 54 rural grocery store closures,” said David Procter, co-founder of the Rural Grocery Initiative. 
One of those was Weaver Grocers in Hesston, which closed its doors in April 2018.
The city council of Hesston has had discussions in the past two years of what to do but to date, no one has stepped forward to fill the void. Grocery shoppers in Hesston now can head to Newton, Buhler, Inman, Moundridge or Goessel.  ....

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