date:Aug 27, 2012
t they lasted only a few years.
Dick Floyd of DM had opened Dick's Finer Food supermarkets on Marywood Drive and South Green Street, and the Floyd family had opened a second DM in a former Red Front/Sureway store on North Green.
Only a few neighborhood markets remained in 1980, including Fifth Street Market, Main Street Market, Larry's Countryview Market and Tapp's First Street Market. But while independent markets were vanishing, a new phenomenon was taking hold: the arrival of convenience stor