[A Navy Vet]

"So, there are non-huge regional/national chain operations that do well."

Okay, good. However, regional/national are not mom and pop neighborhood stores.

[Dr. Sivana]

However, regional/national are not mom and pop neighborhood stores.

I am sorry for the ambiguity in my phrasing. I should have rendered it, " there are 'non-huge regional/national chain' operations that do well.

While Woodman's is not a mom and pop operation, it is employee owned and is part of the Independent Grocers Association IGA (without using the term). Supermarkets had not formed any truly national corporate chains until Wal-Mart went there.

(Safeway was not truly national, not having any significant penetration in the northeast). Piggly Wiggly might have been national in the '20s, I am not sure.

So, while there are few true mom-n-pop supermarkets, there is a lot of space between a literal mom-and-pop and Kroger/Safeway/Walmart.