DETROIT, MI – Joe Gappy walks through Gigante Prince Valley Supermarket fist-bumping employees, high-fiving some customers while speaking in serviceable Spanish to others shopping at the 25,000 square-foot store.
He hands out candy suckers to children, walks the store to keep an eye on trends and possible problems and marvels at how far the store has come in the 37 years his family has been in the grocery business on Michigan Avenue east of Livernois in southwest Detroit.
The store is one of several in southwest Detroit that each employs dozens of workers from the neighborhood, has undergone dramatic renovations and expanded offerings without government loans, tax breaks or other such help.
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