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Article: Marketing a new look ; Potential buyers see a fresh future for Super 88 stores
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 15, 2009
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NEW YORK - Scores of shoppers browse the aisles of the Hong Kong
Supermarket store in Queens, N.Y., inspecting purple Chinese
eggplant and tapping melons for ripeness. Others push their carts
past live turtles and lobsters in the seafood section.
"You can find things that you can't find in other supermarkets,"
said Candice Siewarga, as she bagged green shoots of yu choy.
Just a few years ago, there were six Super 88 Asian grocery
stores in Greater Boston that bustled in the same way, as consumers
hunted for a taste of home among the 20 brands of soy sauce,
hundreds of different noodles, and 76 varieties of rice.
Today, Super 88 founder Peter Luu and his son George - diverted
by a costly ...