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Article: Wal-Mart aims to corner neighborhood market: The mega retailer is opening smaller Neighborhood Markets, challenging grocers in the region.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- February 6, 2006
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Byline: Mark Chediak
Feb. 6--Every week, stay-at-home mom Migdalia Estrada has a choice when she ventures out to buy groceries for her family of five. She can go to her old east Orlando neighborhood standby -- the Publix on South Chickasaw Trail -- or step inside the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market, the new grocery store on the block.
These days, Estrada, 44, said she finds herself making more trips to the nearby Wal-Mart.
"Some stuff is cheaper at Publix, but they sometimes have more specials here," she said on a recent shopping trip to the Neighborhood Market, where she had filled her cart with staples including orange juice, instant soup, rice ...