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Hochman: From Hy-Vee to the Hall — taking stock of Warner's rise

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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa • I drove 345 miles to go to the grocery store.

Well, the grocery store, arguably the most-famous grocery store in St. Louis lore — which, of course, isn’t in St. Louis.

“This is Kurt Warner’s Hy-Vee,” said Josh Brown, manager of store operations. “And there’s kind of a mystique behind that.”

On Saturday in Ohio, the man who once stocked shelves at the Cedar Falls Hy-Vee — after being cut by the Green Bay Packers — was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

On Saturday in Iowa, the store stirred and carts clacked and checkers chuckled and golden kernels speckled the Kerns corn — “A Fresh Taste Of Iowa,” read the packaging on display by the doors.