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Lynn Valley

proliferation ‘of new super stores

THE ABRUPT closure of the Lynn Vatiey Super Valu store
Monday night brought to a close the latest chapter in the
ongoing foed-retailer scramble for a share of the North

Shore shopping-cart market.

The operation was put into
receivership, staff was terminated
and doors were locked.

But according to Stong’s presi-
dent Bil! Rossum, the business will!
reopen Labor Day, in a scaled-
down version, as a Stong’s super-
market.

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

According to the Super Valu
store's last owner-operator, Bryan
Belzer, the business never recov-
ered after losing customers to a

saturating the local food retail
market.

The competition for North
Shore consumer dollars has turned
fierce in recent years with the ar-
rival of two large North Vancouver
Save-On-Foods outlets and the
openings of the Burnaby
Metrotown Save-On-Foods and
Real Canadian Superstore.

Said Belzer, who had owned the

Lynn Valley Super Valu franchise

since the beginning of 1980: ‘‘It’s
actually an onslaught by the
supermarkets that have come in
and taken on the fittle guy. [ regret
us leaving, and 1 hope everything
works out for the staff.’ Belzer
has been managing a Stong’s store
on Rupert Street in Vancouver for
the past month.

Staff working the Lynn Valley
Super Valu Monday night, a skele-
ton crew of two cashiers supported
by an assistant manager, were told

that the business had been put into
receivership.

Receiver representatives arrived
and the doors were locked at about
7:30 p.m., before the 10 p.m. reg-
ular closing time.

Said Joanne Godfroid, a cashier
who has worked the neighborhood
Super Valu for the past 15 years:
‘“We were told that we were ter-
minated at that inoment and to get

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