Grocery Stores

[dtkvictim]

Individuals who are counting every penny they spend on groceries aren't going to be shopping there. It's gentrification. They've suffered through not having a full service supermarket for years, this isn't going to change that.

If this is just going to be a debate on gentrification, then I'm not interested in having it (and it's not the topic of this thread anyways). But if you're can evaluate this store outside of that context, I don't see why it can't be a benefit even to those less well off. If you assume that the poor have infinite time you might be right, but in my experience free time is one of the first things you have to cut when you are having financial trouble. This is especially true for those who need to work multiple jobs. So for those who have to make a trade-off between time and money, they might still save money at a more expensive grocery store if the time savings of it lets them forgo having a car, using a taxi, or grocery delivery that they otherwise need to free up time.

Not to mention, this is a currently empty storefront. You'll have a really hard time convincing me this could be any worse than neutral to the existing DTK population.

I don't know if I'd say that any suburb I've lived in has had a walkable grocery store, I don't think I've ever been to a walkable suburban grocery store on this continent. Just to be clear, I don't consider a grocery store that I can technically walk to, but which is surrounded by miles of parking and dangerous roads, "walkable", but I'm sure that's a question of definition, it's certainly not pleasant to walk to.

Well, given the strict definition you are running with, I can't say any of the suburban grocery stores I had in mind meet your bar for "walkable", but I don't care about your definition. What I care about is having a grocery store I can walk to. Having to cross an 8 lane intersection and swim through the sea of parking was still preferable to the options I currently have.