Article: Lunds closing has Eden Prairie puzzled; Did grocery test spending limits?(NEWS)

Eden Prairie's fanciest grocery store closed its doors forever Sunday night. Now the question is whether much more than that is taking place.

This wasn't just any grocery store. This was Lunds, a marble-floored, gourmet coffee-selling symbol of everything upscale in one of the Twin Cities' most affluent suburbs. Lunds, an institution of sorts in the Twin Cities, in fact had never before been forced to close a store.

And its owners weren't just laying the blame on anything - they said the store failed because Eden Prairie had too many people with big mortgages, big car payments and big private school tuition bills who didn't have money left over for ...

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