<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">There also was Biller's on Camp Street where Camp Street Ministries is now. Miller's Delicatessen on Hope Street was also like a grocery store.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 8:15 PM David Kolsky via Summit <<a href="mailto:summit@sna.providence.ri.us">summit@sna.providence.ri.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif;font-size:16px"><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3">Showing my age (other old-timers will also remember), once upon a time, long long ago (1956-57, when I spent two years at Summit Avenue School before returning to London) ,...</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3">...there was a real supermarket on Hope Street; I think the A&P and I think on the site of the current CVS.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3" color="#5b8828"><b><i>Dave</i></b></font></div><div style="font-size:16px;font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><br></div>
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On Thursday, August 5, 2021, 06:21:31 PM EDT, Christopher Buecheler <<a href="mailto:cwbuecheler@gmail.com" target="_blank">cwbuecheler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="gmail-m_-8460222160798066909ydp11c76b66yiv1686052092"><div><div dir="ltr">I appreciate all the suggestions for grocery stores (seriously!), but my point wasn't that there aren't any alternatives to the big two, it's that none of those alternatives really qualify as a "neighborhood" grocery store, and certainly none of them are walking distance the way the firestation is.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Not Just Spices is great. We shop there all the time. It's not a place you're going to buy your week's worth of groceries. Ditto Bubbies, and Stock, and so forth. During the summer we do a ton of shopping at the Lippit market, but even that doesn't provide anywhere close to everything we use in a given week (and during the winter, it's a drive, just like any other groceries).</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>It's not <i>essential</i> that Summit have a small general grocery store ... but it sure would be nice! That's all I was trying to say.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>-Chris</div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div id="gmail-m_-8460222160798066909ydp11c76b66yiv1686052092yqt55090"><div><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 4:36 PM James Kelley <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:jameskelley4444@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jameskelley4444@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>If you are looking for a full service grocery store and are less interested in the many small independent purveyors of meat, fish, chicken, duck, vegetables, spices, grains, etc. (including ethnic stores), have you tried Market Basket? They are regional based, good to their employees and I get flyers from them (my mother swears by them though I haven't visited them).</div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 5, 2021, 10:37 AM Christopher Buecheler <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:cwbuecheler@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cwbuecheler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if there's been any plan made for what to do with the defunct fire station on Rochambeau?<div><br clear="none"></div><div>For the record, I think it'd make a terrific small, independent, high-quality grocery store, which this neighborhood could definitely use. Right now our choice is giving money to Stop & Shop or Jeff Bezos, which is ... not great.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>-Chris<br clear="all"><div><br clear="none"></div>-- <br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Christopher Buecheler - <a shape="rect" href="https://twitter.com/cwbuecheler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@cwbuecheler</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://cwbuecheler.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://cwbuecheler.com</a> | Web, Writing, and More<div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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