And recent efforts to bring in big chain supermarkets have met with stiff opposition from politically powerful small-business groups.
There are two regional chain supermarkets in the county, both in Derby.
Researchers recruited subjects by interviewing families as they left a Seattle area food cooperative or retail chain supermarket.
Until the late 2000s the neighborhood had no chain supermarkets, as many corporate chains could not afford to lease a retail space.
Demonstrators were reported to have stormed most major chain supermarkets and forced them to close.
In many ways, we have it easier than the big chain supermarkets.
But the benefits have trickled down, as a visit to any midrange chain supermarket will confirm.
The business has been in operation since 1969; selling their products at chain supermarkets in Ontario.
Although, if Australia is anything to go by, most people would rather keep on paying 30% more in the big chain supermarkets.
Also bill with variety of such chain supermarkets as: