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conveyor system. Then customers would take tags with matching numbers out to the structure, and more bag boys would load the groceries from the matching bins into the customers' cars. This service was called the
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Woodwards closures happening within its city limits. In reality, a few of the locations that Hudson's Bay Company did acquired, such as in
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