PATRONS PRAISE STORE'S NEW POLICY
PROVO - On his first day running a beer-and-cigarette-free store,
Paul Ream said he has heard only one complaint, but lots of
praise.
"The complaint was that I shouldn't force my values on
others," Ream, owner of Ream's Family Foods, said Friday. But he
said he has received a surprising amount of praise for his
action.
Customers at the Provo grocery store said they didn't mind
that there was no beer on the shelves or cigarettes behind the
courtesy desk.
In fact, some said they came to the store Friday for that
reason.
"When I saw it in the paper, I said we're going to Ream's,"
said Nina Childs of Provo, who was shopping with her husband,
Ardeen.
Ream decided to stop stocking beer and cigarettes after his
9-year-old daughter, Shyanne, asked him why he sold "drugs" in
his store.
