"Lou Decruss" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:31:19 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
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>>"Lou Decruss" > wrote
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>>> We're in the city, but not the "inner" city. Most of our friends are
>>> in the suburbs and we shop when we visit. So gas is not really an
>>> issue. I know one family who lives out in "ruralville." They've got
>>> one store locally. For more choice they need to drive about 25 miles.
>>> That would suck.

>>Where I live, in the middle of everywhere and nowhere, there used to
>>be just one supermarket convenient. It was awful, I bitched about it
>>all the time. Grubby store with no selection and surly employees.
>>Someone said Why don't you just shop somewhere else? There really
>>is nowhere else convenient. The only other store within 8-10 miles
>>was a huge hassle to get to and I didn't like that store either.
>>
>>Then Stop and Shop opened a couple miles away, and coincidentally
>>my usual store was bought out by Albertsons and there was happiness
>>and peace in the land. Fast forward 10 years or so, I pulled into the
>>new Stop and Shop and ... it's gone! Brand new building, empty.
>>

Glad you got another store. I'd be sad
> to just have two.
>
> Lou

Surely that would depend on what you got in the trade off? Two or more
supermarkets would sort of preclude brilliant wilderness landscapes or
silent mountaintops, or many other things that might be found appealing.

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