Another area grocery store, Day's Market in Provo's Edgemont neighborhood, stopped selling beer and cigarettes a decade ago because sales were poor.

Ream's Family Foods and Day's Market are closed on Sundays. So is Macey's, another store in BYU's shadow, but Macey's carries alcohol and tobacco.

Two Albertson's stores and a Smith's in north and central Provo are open on Sundays and carry beer and cigarettes.

Ream is the grandson and namesake of Paul Ream, who launched a grocery business in 1944 that expanded to more than a dozen stores around the state. Paul Ream Avenue in Provo runs between University Avenue and Freedom Boulevard.

The street was adjacent to a former Provo landmark, the Ream's turtle, a tortoise-shaped concrete building that was torn down two years ago and is being replaced by Alpine Village, a mixed-use student apartment complex.

The University Parkway location owned by the younger Paul Ream opened in October 2005.

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