How a Local Supermarket Is Surviving the Walmart Era

Turns out, connecting with a community IRL still makes a difference

Emily Rees Nunn
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8 min readDec 18, 2019

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You’d probably drive right past Horton’s Supermarket if you weren’t looking for it — and, honestly, why would you be?

It’s in a small, squat, not exactly gorgeous building plonked down just inside the city limits of a small town in the…

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Emily Rees Nunn
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My book, “The Comfort Food Diaries,” was one of NPR’s best books of 2017. Former New Yorker mag editor. Former Chicago Tribune hack. Present day freelancer.