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Wal-Mart finds opportunity in Four Corners, Fla., area.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004
By Kelly Griffith, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 7--FOUR CORNERS, Fla. -- Robin Caporuscio isn't too far from a happy dance.
Living in south Lake County a few miles from the spot where Lake, Polk, Osceola and Orange counties converge, the 31-year-old mother of two could serve as the Four Corners poster mom.
Her kids crunch into crowded schools. Mickey Mouse provides a paycheck. Their subdivision name, Greater Groves, conjures up citrus imagery. And the minivan mileage leaps every time she heads south to Polk County, looking for some of suburbia's basics such as garden mulch or khaki school shorts.
The odometer might get a bit of a break now.
Last week's opening of a...
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