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Wood's Supermarket and Deli is in Pocahontas, the largest city and county seat of Pocahontas County in northwest Iowa. Single location grocery stores and small independent chains outnumber large chain stores in rural counties, according to the USDA. But their numbers have steadily declined in recent decades.

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