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<img src="http://www.minitmart.com/wp-content/uploads/history_photos.jpg" width="420"> It all started in 1967, when Fred Higgins and his father Ralph founded a little place called Minit Mart. Fred was in law school at the University of Kentucky, but by the time he graduated in 1969, he had expanded the operation to six stores in the Lexington area. After Fred’s return from the Army in 1972, Minit Mart Foods was incorporated with 16 stores — a pretty notable achievement, but one that was only beginning. He started to acquire single convenience stores and select sites on which to build new Minit Marts, and by 1988 Minit Mart had expanded its business to Tennessee when it acquired 19 Bread...