...I need to remove duplicate product entries...

Perhaps your mentioning the address comparison was only a solution proposal. If I'm understanding you correctly--that you only want to "remove duplicate product entries"--then consider the following:

use strict;
use warnings;

local $/ = '';
my ( %products, %records );

while (<>) {
    if (/(Product.+)/) {
        $products{$1}++;
        $records{$1} = $_;
    }
}

print $records{$_} for grep $products{$_} == 1, keys %records;

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Usage: perl script.pl dataFile [>outFile]

Output on your data set:

Product 3
------------------------------------------------------------------
storeId = 2123
phoneNumber = (111) 111-1111
availbilityCode = 1
stockStatus = Limited stock
distance = 8.83
city = some city
fullStreet = some address

Product 2
------------------------------------------------------------------
storeId = 2117
phoneNumber = (111) 111-1111
availbilityCode = 2
stockStatus = In stock
distance = 7.49
city = some city
fullStreet = some address

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The script builds two hashes: one to track the number of times a product number occurs (%products) and one for the records (%records) keyed on the product number. A record is printed only if the product number was seen only once.

Hope this helps!

In reply to Re: Removing Duplicates from a multiline entry by Kenosis
in thread Removing Duplicates from a multiline entry by diamondsandperls

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