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Marsh handed the baton to Kroger. Here’s a retrospective five years later.

Marsh handed the baton to Kroger. Here’s a retrospective five years later.
A hat-tip must go out to the folks at Urban Indy, which, though their (our) posts may be scant, still lives on as a conversation thread.  And it was through Urban Indy conversations that I learned about the article that prompted me to write here for the first time in many moons.  It’s hard to imagine, but it has been five years since the Indianapolis staple Marsh Supermarkets closed its remaining locations: all 44 of them.  Not a huge chain and never one of national scale, Marsh was nonetheless the most prevalent grocer in many parts of Indiana and eastern Ohio in the 1980s and 90s.   Founded...
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