Corner Store #17: Penny's Grocery @ 2934 Kingsway Ave. This little shop could not survive in the wake of a Chevron Gas station and convenience bar opening up next door.
The white tarp half-shrouds the bigger story which is that big market chains such as those owned by the 0.1 percenters, and the big crawdaddy Amazon are eroding small business ecology into obscurity. Cruel irony abounds in this Jimmy Pattison ("Bigger and Better") triptych:
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