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That would be a funny way to define grocery store, because it would exclude e.g. a number of stores in Alaska.
by klodolph 7y ago
That would be a funny way to define grocery store, because it would exclude e.g. a number of stores in Alaska.
- derefr 7y agoI feel like that’s intuitively correct, though. A “grocery store” that you’d just call that is defined by a partnership with one or a number of domestic distributors. There’s a different type of store (without a coherent name—it’s usually either “[country] import store” or “[culture] food market”) which is defined by a partnership with a specific import business (where that importer is in turn defined by their relationship to an export business in a specific country—though they may be re-exporting goods that were already imported there from elsewhere!) The supply chain for these companies is constrained by the logistics of international shipping, which means it’s more profitable to just specialize in one particular 1:1:1 logistical pipeline, rather than many. The remote Alaskan grocery stores are really the latter type of store. They’re US import stores! (And a real “grocery store” in such a part of the would would just sell, like, seal meat. And maybe hydroponic hot-house vegetables, if they ever bother doing that.)