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The PriceRite on Diamond Hill Road in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is the city's only full-scale food store.
Woonsocket has only one full-scale grocery store left due to restrictive property covenants.
KEY POINTS
- Stop & Shop and Walmart placed 25- to 30-year deed restrictions barring competitors from selling groceries.
- Rhode Island officials identified seven restrictive covenants statewide, some lasting up to 75 years.
- Rhode Island's proposed 2025 legislation would be the second in the nation to ban these covenants.
- Experts and the FTC say these covenants may violate antitrust law, but enforcement remains elusive.
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