There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then
they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably
know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'.

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Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis or
Indians and converted into small neighborhood grocery stores with names
like 'Stop n' Shop, 'Stop 'n Joy', 'Pack 'n Tote', and "Circle A-Z'. It's
all a matter of placement and positioning.Go figure.

There's a little store store up in Austin called 'Quickie Pickie' and it's
a drive through store. But these could hardly be called grocery stores any
more than Dollar General could be called a Department Store. So, how far do
you live from a real corner grocery store and could you walk there if you
wanted to? You might be living in a food desert.


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter of
> placement and positioning.
>
> You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of
> Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's
> 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census
> tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a
> family of four.
>
> "A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to
> obtain", except by a automobile.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
>
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>
> Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods?
>
> http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, <s3raph...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted the
>> worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) Funny
>> thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of the
>> people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving London
>> for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some
>> metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted.
>>
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote:
>>
>> Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places
>> that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another
>> time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas.
>>
>> So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the
>> towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town
>> there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure.
>>
>> When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting
>> at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating
>> Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy!
>>
>> Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that
>> suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no
>> place to go. LoL!
>>
>>
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