116 Main Street, Damariscotta. 33 Main Street, Dexter. 65 Main Street, Madison. 185 Water Street, Gardiner. 86 Front Street, Bath.
Those are addresses of Reny’s stores in Maine.
Not highway exits. Not shopping centers on the edge of town. Main Street, in towns where the national chains left a long time ago and never came back.
Here is the part that makes this a business story rather than a nostalgia piece.
Reny’s is not on Main Street out of civic sentiment. It is there because of how the company buys its merchandise, and those two facts are the same fact.