Wah! The rich people get a nicer grocery store!

I can't open the link on my blackberry, but a much better story would be to have a reporter check the prices on 30-some items at Kroger's stores in east Nashville and west Nashville to see if the chain is charging higher prices for eggs and milk in the poor part of town, where customers have fewer options. Or does it get into that?

 

Hate to say it but Kroger will probably just pull out of the bad area before pumping dollars into a bad store. The cost of security, theft and repairs for a lot of the inner-city stores don't justify a chain keeping it open.

 

I was thinking the same thing. Yeah, it's a state run grocery store. Jesus.

And speaking of Whole Foods, a disgruntled employee in a very upscale Toronto neighbourhood, recently quit, sending a 2,000 word e-mail just before he quit, calling Whole Foods ""a faux hippy Wal-Mart"

[http://gawker.com/5824287/read-a-disgruntled-whole-foods-employees-epic-resignation-letter]http://gawker.com/5824287/read-a-disgruntled-whole-foods-employees-epic-resignation-letter][http://gawker.com/5824287/read-a-disgruntled-whole-foods-employees-epic-resignation-letter

 

The smart thing to do is to bus a bunch of shoplifters to the richie-rich end of town and thereby drive the nice stores with the olive bars and sushi stations to the ghetto.

 

Regulation is bad for business.

 

This is actually something that has been a representation of prejudice against blacks for decades, how grocery chains underserve poorer areas, leaving the main shopping option to be convenience store shysters. Just a sign that not all is perfect in race relations.

 

The basics of this statement are true, but what's the solution?

 

Agree, but it's a tough situation in a business with razor thin margins.

A big chain store in a poor area could fast become a losing proposition with a lot of shop lifting.

 

Wow.