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" Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business. "

John Catsimatidis

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" Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions. "

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