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Article: With the big dogs; Pet Supplies `Plus' grows to 3rd-largest pet food specialist.(Plus/USA Inc.)(Company Profile)
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- Crain's Detroit Business
- Article date:
- December 19, 2005
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Byline: Brent Snavely
For Frank Arcori, selling pet food and supplies is more fun than being in the grocery business.
What's more, Arcori typifies the kind of Pet Supplies "Plus'' franchisee that has been a cornerstone of the Farmington Hills-based specialty pet food retailers' national expansion.
"The difference in being a food retailer and a pet food retailer is that the customer in the food business shops with you because they have to,'' Arcori said. "The people in the pet-supply business shop with you because they want to.''
Pet Supplies "Plus''/USA Inc. is the nation's third-largest specialty pet food retailer. Since 1994, the ...