Save-A-Lot Carves Niche Serving Communities That Publix And Others Overlook

GULFPORT — Betty Duffey has a half-dozen grocery stores vying for her business near her neighborhood in southern Pinellas County.

Publix Supermarkets is 2.5 miles down the road and she'll pass by a Winn-Dixie and a Walmart Neighborhood Market on the way there. Two miles in the other direction is an Aldi and a Walmart Supercenter. But Duffey, 63, does most of her grocery shopping at Save-A-Lot.

It's the closest grocery store to her house, but it's also the cheapest.

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