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Supermarket competition stiffens

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* our stuff out of the lockers and
leave. We felt sick to our
stomachs.”’

According to staff, rumors had
been circulating for more than a
year that Stong’s was planning to
purchase the “.ynn Valley store.

Said Diane Jansen, a cashier with
Lyon Valle: Super Valu for 14
years: “Atout six to eight weeks
ago we w..e told that we had been
bought ¥y Stong’s and that
everything was final and that it
would p-abably happen Aug. 1. As
we go. closer and closer nothing
was said, and then we were told
that uothing had been signed and

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nothing was final. And then they
just walked in Monday and asked
the employees to leave,”’ she said.

But Belzer denies informing
staff that a Stong’s sale was final
two months ago.

The fate of the store’s 36
eployees is up in the air. But said
Stong’s Rossum: ‘‘We’re working
right now on an arrangement to
help out the employees that were
here.””

Said Jansen of Monday’s
closure, ‘‘Everybody is stunned
and angry. They didn’t have the
decency to tell us anything.”’

But ‘seplied Rossum: ‘We've
been negotiating for a couple of

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years to get into this iocation.
Everything came to a head Mon-
day. The leasing arrangements
jelled and the store was put into
receivership.”’

Approximately 4,500 square feet
of the store’s retail space will be
turned over to Lynn Valley Centre
for construction of a liquor store.

Rossum is confident the store
can work as a Stong’s outlet.
““Save-On came in as a new player
in the market, but the pie is the
same size and they've taken a piece
of it. We provide a niche with ser-
vice and a _ neighborhood at-
mosphere that people won't get
from the big guys.”

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