Detroit: Even more Miserable
http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070705/METRO/707050349
The lack of major grocery stores has long been a quality-of-life problem in Detroit and one reason some families don't want to live in the city. Now, however, the situation is getting worse as the last two Farmer Jack stores in the city prepare to close by Saturday.
If no grocery stores buy the Farmer Jack locations from the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Detroit will be left without a single national chain supermarket, much less a Wal-Mart or Meijer superstore or a Costco-style warehouse store.
Analysts say no other major city in America is such a supermarket desert. And it's not likely to change anytime soon.
I don't know why, but the problems of Detroit just fascinate me. It's like a morbid, sociological experiment gone wrong. How the hell does a major U.S. city not have any supermarkets? It's like a surge of death has swept it's horned visage over the entire Detroit economy.
The mind boggles. Having lived in S.F. for years with its ridiculous shortage of supermarkets and overpriced, godawful corner stores, I'd find it completely maddening to basically have no place to shop.
How did the mayor's office respond? "In certain areas where the socioeconomic is probably at the lowest end of our society, there are a lot of desperate people," [Matt Allen, press secretary for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick] said.
That statement came from a press secretary? Nice syntax. You'd think that if anyone in local government could formulate a coherent sentence, it would be the press secretary.
The lack of major grocery stores has long been a quality-of-life problem in Detroit and one reason some families don't want to live in the city. Now, however, the situation is getting worse as the last two Farmer Jack stores in the city prepare to close by Saturday.
If no grocery stores buy the Farmer Jack locations from the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Detroit will be left without a single national chain supermarket, much less a Wal-Mart or Meijer superstore or a Costco-style warehouse store.
Analysts say no other major city in America is such a supermarket desert. And it's not likely to change anytime soon.
I don't know why, but the problems of Detroit just fascinate me. It's like a morbid, sociological experiment gone wrong. How the hell does a major U.S. city not have any supermarkets? It's like a surge of death has swept it's horned visage over the entire Detroit economy.
The mind boggles. Having lived in S.F. for years with its ridiculous shortage of supermarkets and overpriced, godawful corner stores, I'd find it completely maddening to basically have no place to shop.
How did the mayor's office respond? "In certain areas where the socioeconomic is probably at the lowest end of our society, there are a lot of desperate people," [Matt Allen, press secretary for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick] said.
That statement came from a press secretary? Nice syntax. You'd think that if anyone in local government could formulate a coherent sentence, it would be the press secretary.
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