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I know how important Main Street grocery stores are to America, because I grew up in one

Consumer choice and supply chain fairness are vital to keeping small businesses alive

By Greg Ferrara Fox News

Published July 13, 2026 5:00am EDT

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I come from a family of grocers. For generations, my family ran a neighborhood grocery store in New Orleans, the kind of place where you knew your customers by name, where the produce came in fresh that morning, and where the store was as much a part of the community as the church down the street or the school around the corner. That store didn't survive Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But what it stood for never left me. A grocery store isn't just a place to buy food. It's a cornerstone of the community it serves.

Today, I have the privilege of standing alongside independent grocers in every corner of the country: in big-city neighborhoods, in the suburbs and in small, rural towns where the local grocer is one of the last anchors keeping........

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