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In one neighborhood I lived in in NYC, the only local supermarket closed down to make way for a Walgreens. They tried to reassure the community that they would
by donretag 7y ago
In one neighborhood I lived in in NYC, the only local supermarket closed down to make way for a Walgreens. They tried to reassure the community that they would stock staples like (terrible) bread and milk, but obviously no fresh food like vegetables.
This neighborhood was not a poor one. Million dollar condos (forget houses), all around.
- alexhutcheson 7y agoThe core problem is zoning. NYC makes it either impossible or prohibitively expensive to find an acceptable site for a large-format grocery store. In Manhattan, all recently built grocery stores have had to be in basements to work around restrictive zoning: https://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/1054518549971111936 https://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/105451854997111193... However, there are only so many buildings with acceptable basement layouts, and only so many neighborhood that are profitably enough to merit the additional capital and operational cost of a supermarket in a basement.