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Within a 20-minute drive of home in a mid-sized city in a purple state, there are two Target groceries, a Walmart superstore, a Walmart stand-alone grocery, two Harris Teeters, Food Lion, Costco, Publix, two Aldis, a Lidl, a Trader Joe’s, Asian and Latin food specialty markets, a Fresh Market and probably others that have escaped my attention.