It’s Lights Out for Dublin IGA Supermarket That ‘Felt Like Home’

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For nearly 40 years, Mike Flagello’s IGA Supermarket in Dublin served his patrons with such an attention to detail that he and his staff were on a first-name basis with many of them. The opening of a competing store nearby, however, proved to be too much, leading Flagello to lock his doors for the last time. Christopher Dorenblaser chronicled the exit for the Bucks County Courier Times.

“This is like home,” Flagello, said of his neon-lit aisles of produce, meats, boxes, bottles, and cans.

His exit from the local grocery industry winnows the flock of locally owned food stores across the entire county.

Felled by competition and related economics (Flagello’s operating estimates for 2022 made the business unsustainable), the IGA announced its departure. Loyal customers stopped by in its waning days to bid it farewell.

“The regulars really took it hard,” he said.

More on the Dublin IGA store closure is at the Bucks County Courier Times.

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