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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  One Way To Be More Than A Grocery Store

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I’ve talked a lot here in recent months about the heightened food retail competition in my local market, in Fairfield County, Connecticut.  But I haven’t talked much about a local independent, Palmer’s, which has been serving this community since 1921.  But they did something the other night that grabbed my attention, and I want to tell you about it.  (The real “money quote” comes at about three minutes in.)

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