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Article: After the flood: Sometimes what seems like a total loss can end up with a positive ending, at least that's what happened for Park View Supermarket and the community it serves. (Equipment & Design).
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- Grocery Headquarters
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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It must have seemed like something out of a 1970's disaster movie, water pouring out of everywhere including the front door. But this was no movie, not something staged with special effects on a Hollywood sound stage. This was real and happening in a local supermarket right in the middle of town.
In fact, picture pulling up to the local Park View Supermarket in the small college community of Bradford, Pa., only to find the store's enhance flooded--a virtual river of water. That's the situation that the store's operator, Glean Wholesale Grocery Co-op Inc., faced when a flood caused severe damage to one of its older stores.
"We had been hit by a flash ...