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National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2005 Patricia Kirk	Sizing Up the Supermarket Industry Growing segmentation in the grocery industry brought the average size of new stores in 2004 under 40,000 sq. ft. for the first time in a decade, reports the Food Marketing Institute (FMI).
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