![]() Long before there was a city of Miami, in the mid-19th Century groceries were sold at Fort Dallas, site of today’s downtown Miami. Who Miami’s first grocer was is difficult to determine. Residents of such condominiums as the Moorings, across from the mall, are not provided bus service. The McDonald Senior Center, 17051 NE 19th Ave., provides transportation to North Miami Beach’s elderly if they live in the city limits. “We moved into this area because we would have shopping nearby and wouldn’t have to drive much,” she said. But until then, said Marge Shores, 60, she does not know where she will shop. Its chairman, John Catsimatidis, said the company will decide in 10 days if it will reopen grocery stores at those locations under the Pantry Pride or Red Apple name. The stores are owned by a New York-based holding company, the Red Apple Group. ![]() The North Miami Beach grocery store, along with a North Miami store and another in Sunny Isles, are three food stores in North Dade taken in the settlement. ![]() “I don’t have transportation, and I don’t have the strength to walk to the next grocery store.” Woolley’s supermarket, which settled a legal dispute with Malone & Hyde, a food distributor, lost 16 of its 20 South Florida stores to Fleming Co., which owns Malone & Hyde. “No one warned us that the store was closing, and now I don’t know what I’m supposed to do,” said Heller, who lives in a North Miami Beach condominium across the street from the shuttered market at 1800 NE Miami Gardens Dr. Woolley’s had shut down, and now Heller, 86, wants to know where she is supposed to buy her food without walking a mile. But when she tried to enter the grocery store last week, all she found was a locked door. Betty Heller must have walked a million times across Miami Gardens Drive and into Woolley’s the past nine years.
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