Big grocery can use anti-competitive clauses to block other stores from entering a market. Rhode Island is the second state to ban that practice Jeannine Johansen remembers the halcyon days of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, when so many of its steep streets were punctuated by grocery stores: Almacs, A&P, Piggly Wiggly and Star Market.
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