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Tiny Grocer says it's closing its South Congress flagship, so I itemized a three-dollar corner-store run on the avenue, plus the 31 cents I left in the cup by the register.
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Brendan Holt stood in the former parking lot of Al's Washateria at East 12th and Chicon last week explaining his $4.2M seed round while the dryer I fed three quarters into in 1998 sat behind him like a museum piece; what once took two dollars, a plastic basket, and zero logins now demands an app, a credit check, and a monthly "Clean Club" membership if you don't want surge pricing on Saturdays.
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