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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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CST Editorial Board

Save A Lot plan is a hopeful sign for food deserts

Yellow Banana, an Ohio-based company, wants to reopen the closed Gresham Save A Lot store and five others on the South and West sides. (Brian Rich/Sun-Times)

What a treat it must have been for customers in Englewood to buy steeply discounted items at a supermarket chain some jokingly refer to as “Whole Paycheck.”

Sadly, the big weekend sale at the Englewood Whole Foods came at a price that had been in the works for months. After six years, the store at 832 W. 63rd St. permanently shut its doors on Sunday.

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