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A lifelong Pleasant Hill resident can no longer buy groceries from neighborhood convenience stores.
A handful of corner stores used to thrive within walking distance from Harry Hopkins’ home on Ward Street, but they’ve all gradually shuttered since the 1990s, he says.
“You could find anything there. You could feed your family if you had to,” the 52-year-old said Tuesday afternoon. “But everybody that has a say in most of the stuff here, they just let the neighborhood go down.”…