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Just to be clear, today's corner stores do not sell food. That is the problem. Sugary drinks and potato chips are not real food, they are garbage. This isn't ex

by mnm1 8y ago

Just to be clear, today's corner stores do not sell food. That is the problem. Sugary drinks and potato chips are not real food, they are garbage. This isn't exclusive to gas stations and other places like that. In San Francisco, it still holds. There is either no food or food of such low quality as to count as no food. I cannot go into these stores and buy a sandwich or ingredients for one nor do they have fruits or vegetables to cook a meal. Also they are overpriced and generally a ripoff that are mostly useless if your goal is to not be hungry. Like everything else in America, I'm sure there is some twisted economic explanation for this. I don't care too much because regardless of the explanation, the only way to get decent food in America is to drive a few miles and the only way to get good food, is to drive many miles. And I live in a city with a bigger city next door. This idea that we can all have walkable nice neighborhoods in America with amenities close by that this site tries to push is frankly delusional in our current economy.

ams6110 8y ago
There are neighborhoods in America that are walkable and have small shops including grocery stores, but they are very trendy and desirable to wealthy aging baby boomers. After creating the malls and mega retail centers in their working years, they now find that they don't want to live and shop in the environment that they created. So like most other things they touch, they bid the price up on their preferred lifestyle until nobody else can afford it.
- extralego 8y ago
  And they line up to ridicule millennials for having sustainable and comparably very simple common-sense standards. I always respected elders, but it was far easier to do with the Great Generation. I really respected them. My respect for collective baby-boomers has diminished. On the bright side, it’s probably all uphill from here. As they begin dying off, we will build a drastically more humane world for ourselves.
craftyguy 8y ago
The corner store by my house sells milk, eggs, frozen meals, and fruit. I've seen similar offerings at corner stores around the US. Not all of them do, but to assume they all don't is a rather ignorant approach.
- mnm1 8y ago
  So they sell ingredients for half a meal and that somehow qualifies as a grocery store that can replace supermarkets? Not to mention the quality even of these products is dubious and the price typically 2-3x. In no way can such stores sustain a community or, more important to my original point, eliminate driving to get quality food for a majority of Americans.
  - craftyguy 8y ago
    You can definitely make meals out of what they carry, what I listed above is not an exhaustive list.. Selection is somewhat limited, but if supermarkets went away then I'd be willing to bet they would be more than happy to pick up the slack by expanding their offerings.

by mnm1 8y ago

ams6110 8y ago

There are neighborhoods in America that are walkable and have small shops including grocery stores, but they are very trendy and desirable to wealthy aging baby boomers. After creating the malls and mega retail centers in their working years, they now find that they don't want to live and shop in the environment that they created. So like most other things they touch, they bid the price up on their preferred lifestyle until nobody else can afford it.

extralego 8y ago
And they line up to ridicule millennials for having sustainable and comparably very simple common-sense standards. I always respected elders, but it was far easier to do with the Great Generation. I really respected them. My respect for collective baby-boomers has diminished. On the bright side, it’s probably all uphill from here. As they begin dying off, we will build a drastically more humane world for ourselves.

craftyguy 8y ago

The corner store by my house sells milk, eggs, frozen meals, and fruit. I've seen similar offerings at corner stores around the US. Not all of them do, but to assume they all don't is a rather ignorant approach.

mnm1 8y ago
So they sell ingredients for half a meal and that somehow qualifies as a grocery store that can replace supermarkets? Not to mention the quality even of these products is dubious and the price typically 2-3x. In no way can such stores sustain a community or, more important to my original point, eliminate driving to get quality food for a majority of Americans.
- craftyguy 8y ago
  You can definitely make meals out of what they carry, what I listed above is not an exhaustive list.. Selection is somewhat limited, but if supermarkets went away then I'd be willing to bet they would be more than happy to pick up the slack by expanding their offerings.