READ the full article at www.Philly.com. NUTRITIONAL CHALLENGES in a SUPERMARKET DESERT.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Chester is in a Supermarket Desert
When poverty increased, many businesses moved away, including supermarkets. Chester has become a so-called supermarket desert, Sahara-like in its dearth of Acmes, Genuardis, and ShopRites. Such stores, generally 60,000 to 100,000 square feet, require a volume of traffic that can't be generated in Chester, said James Turner, director of economic development for the Chester Economic Development Authority. Instead, Chester has about 100 corner and convenience stores, takeout places, bars and grills, and one or two sit-down restaurants within its approximately five square miles, according to a survey by Marina Barnett and Chad Freed of Widener University in Chester. The investigators created a food map of the city to catalogue resources.
READ the full article at www.Philly.com. NUTRITIONAL CHALLENGES in a SUPERMARKET DESERT.
READ the full article at www.Philly.com. NUTRITIONAL CHALLENGES in a SUPERMARKET DESERT.
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Chester has tried super markets before without much success. I can understand the reluctance in putting a market here. Is a Super Market here going to get any business from people?
ReplyDeleteUnless Chester folk are prohibited from shopping anywhere else, and people from outside Chester shop at the Chester supermarket, I don't see a major chain coming to town.
ReplyDeleteWow! That's saying it like it is.
ReplyDeleteWhy does it have to be a huge cavernous space? There are creative ways to address this problem- chester is not like other places nearby, so we shouldn't try to be what we are not. Why not offer the community something different?
ReplyDeleteWhat do suggest the community needs that would work in that space?
ReplyDeleteA Wawa would be nice :)
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