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Town's only grocery closes

A tiny Vancouver Island community's only grocery store has closed.

Brad Unger worked at the shuttered SuperValu in Gold River for 31 years.

“I don’t want to use the word depressing, but when you look around the community and here it is noon and you look outside and there’s nobody walking by the door, it’s hard to look at,” Unger told CTV.

He started out as a meat cutter before buying the store 14 years ago.

On Nov. 12, he closed doors for good.

A TD Bank decision to pull its branch out of the shop was the last nail in the coffin.

“Little things, you know, the government takes away fishing licenses in the summertime, we used to (have) like 300, 350 licences you know, you don’t have that traffic flow,” Unger said.

The closest grocery store now is an hour away in Campbell River.

– with files from CTV Vancouver Island



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