I work for a chain of 5 Ace stores, and can shed a bit of light here. Nationally Ace puts out 8-10 events per year and sends mailers and puts up social media, but Ace is a co-op, the owners of our stores participate in all events, but all the stores do not have to. Additionally we all can buy from the warehouse, but can also buy from local vendors, or other vendors and stock things that we think the market needs. We participated in this event in all 5 stores, and a lot of the time when there isn’t an event, but its a nice Saturday, we will throw something on a grill and have someone talking about what we did, and the spices or sauces that we used.
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