"Protest Check in Aisle 6"
Plan For A CVS Draws Protest In Woodstock
The New York Times (free registration and 'cookies' required)
It does not have quite the ring of an epochal battle cry of the
counterculture. But here in America's living monument to the glory days
of the 1960's, a proposal to close the town's beloved supermarket and
replace it with a sprawling, franchise drugstore has graying veterans
taking to the streets, pledging to block traffic with human chains and
summoning the great proletarian struggles of the past. The issue has
become the most visceral one here in many years, partly because Grand
Union, though indisputably corporate, was both a community gathering
spot and a lifeline for the disadvantaged. More fundamentally, the
situation has raised the specter that as Grand Union goes, so, too,
might go the neighborhood, rendering this quirky and anti- establishment
stronghold indistinguishable from other homogenized and
corporate-flavored suburbs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/11/nyregion/11WOOD.html
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