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What seems to satisfy mom-and-pop customers most is a quality that the chains, with their reliance on self-service, rarely provide: the warm ambiance of the hometown library. Buyers prefer to talk to booksellers, not to supermarket-style check-out clerks. They like to attend readings by authors or slip off their shoes in a homey shop, settle into an armchair and browse for an hour. Many of these stores provide coffee and other refreshments; Atlanta's Oxford Books (115,000 titles) has a lunch counter and stays open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Says owner Rupert LeCraw...
Several councillors said they wanted to make the terms of the sale conditional on its future use as a a supermarket...
...spokesperson for the supermarket chain said that the council was subjecting the proposal to undue scrutiny...
...fail to understand why we're under such a cloud of suspicion," said Stop and Shop Vice President Charles Richards, adding that the supermarket company has owned its current building for more than 40 years...
City Councillor William H. Walsh suggested that one way around the difficulty might be to specify that the city could buy the property back if Stop and Shop should decide not to build a supermarket...