[Dilbert San Diego]

Some black leaders, such as Jesse Jackson, have lamented that major retailers and major chain supermarkets avoid mostly minority areas.

Michelle Obama talked about this also. She said that there are “food deserts” in cities which don’t have chain supermarkets, only liquor stores or convenience stores which sell junk food only.

I heard that the entire city of Detroit has only 8 supermarkets left in the entire city.

It may be unfortunate in some ways, but, businesses have decided that it’s not worth the extra problems and costs of doing business to locate in these inner city areas.

If the flash mobs keep it up, we’ll all have to travel farther out from the city to do our shopping. You may well see retailers and supermarkets near public transportation, such as this Sears store, decide to close down rather than deal with the ongoing hassles of doing business in such places.

[redangus]

Here in Indianapolis a few yeas back they built a fancy new Cub Foods in a blighted area called the Meadows, within 5 years the store was boarded up. The reason, simple the local yutes came into the store daily and cleaned it out. They also attacked paying customers in the parking lot. After a few years the store just closed up shop. It seems you just can't have a nice store in an Amish neighborhood anymore .

[tcrlaf]

“Some black leaders, such as Jesse Jackson, have lamented that major retailers and major chain supermarkets avoid mostly minority areas.”

WELL... DUH....
Has Jesse ever asked himself WHY??????

[brewer1516]

Yes, and notice that no Marxists like Jackson are investing in building supermarkets in those areas. I’m a bit surprised that the Fed hasn’t strong-armed supermarket chains into “serving” the so called food deserts.

How far removed are we from state-run food distribution centers in places like Detroit.

[Jonty30]

I can see large chains requiring driver’s license or a credit card to enter the premises.

It is the smaller mom and pop’s or independent stores that would likely cease to exist.