My unformed concept (I'm best at those) was for a combo store like Delmonicos offering a small storefront with major neighborhood delivery out the back. Neighborhood!! Anything bigger would just lead to the centralized Hopkins based system we have now. Course that's where the cheap is.
I like Jon's concept, and think it would be good for communities across the entire city.
O.K. how about franchising these operations. Cub, Rainbow, Lunds, Kowalskys-whomever could develop a model (with obviously many experiments) and start shopping it around to potential neighborhood entrepreneurs--the people who observe and think they can solve the need.
There's really only a very few major grocery retailers in the area. Cub, Lunds, Kowalskies and Byerlys are all owned by SuperValu. So the real retailers with broad coverage are SuperValue, Rainbow, Target and Walmart, I believe.
Chris Johnson Fulton
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