date:Aug 27, 2012
s owned two supermarkets just one mile apart along the same road. That proximity, along with the pressures of competing with a Wal-Mart Supercenter, were too much; the Buehler store closed in 2009 and its building remains empty.
That same year, grocer Tom Floyd reopened the then-closed DM on Clay Street as Tom's Market. But most neighborhood groceries had vanished along with at least half of the county's country stores.
Yet for all that turbulence, there are still new companies vying for a slice