"The buying power is not there for us small stores, so we aren't getting the prices the bigger supermarkets are getting it at,"he said.
"I hope [that closure] isn't a sign there for us, I hope that people are going to support independent operators,"he said.
"If you want to create and stimulate more competition between players, you need to shop across all the players."
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