By: miyabo
Dude, it's fucking Minnesota in January. You're going to have to use dried herbs or pay $6 a bunch. You're not in a rainforest anymore. I did eventually find fresh thyme. It cost $3 and according to...
View ArticleBy: tj
Being friends with a few people who own businesses downtown, pretty much everything Oriole Adams states lines up with what I have heard from them as far as dealing with the city itself- or at least it...
View ArticleBy: Oriole Adams
klangklangston, the article I linked to mentioned the "high cost" of doing business in Detroit; a large part of that cost is the high insurance premiums that any business within the city limits must...
View ArticleBy: klangklangston
"I thought the word "also" in my post indicated that the linked portion pertained to a separate and different point I was making." So, the bit about theft and insurance was just unsupported conjecture....
View ArticleBy: Oriole Adams
klangklangston, I thought the word "also" in my post indicated that the linked portion pertained to a separate and different point I was making. I don't understand the Birmingham hate; I've lived here...
View ArticleBy: klangklangston
When I was dating a Spanish chick I met at Hash Bash, she was working as an au pair in Troy. Because she had absolutely no sense of cars, she thought my tan Acura was the same car as in Knight Rider,...
View ArticleBy: The World Famous
Hey, be nice to Birmingham. It's Troy you should be annoyed with. Stupid Troy.
View ArticleBy: klangklangston
I will say it's interesting to me to see people pining for Farmer Jacks, since I only remember those from Ypsi and Dearborn, and they were always the shittier stores compared to what was around them.
View ArticleBy: klangklangston
"It's primarily theft and the resulting huge insurance costs that have chased all the chains out of the city." That's not what it says in the article. Could you avoid getting your Birmingham on every...
View ArticleBy: Subcommandante Cheese
owned by Supervalu, same parent company as Cub Foods. Target has grocery stores under the SuperTarget label. Target does not own Cub. Ah. I suppose I assumed that they were owned by Target since, I...
View ArticleBy: r_nebblesworthII
2nd what Oriole posted - just met a Detroiter yesterday who closed down two stores because they were getting robbed every 6 weeks and insurance wouldn't cover the losses.
View ArticleBy: klangklangston
"I drove to 3 different stores yesterday looking for fresh thyme...." Dude, it's fucking Minnesota in January. You're going to have to use dried herbs or pay $6 a bunch. You're not in a rainforest...
View ArticleBy: Oriole Adams
Honest question: Why would a supermarket chain not want to open in Detroit or any other city for that matter ? Do they fear mass shoplifting or riots or that the locals only eat take aways & don't...
View ArticleBy: miyabo
To add to the "yes" chorus, Minneapolis has a bunch. Moving from Seattle to Minneapolis, the #1 glaringly obvious really annoying difference was the lack of convenient, well-stocked, reasonably priced...
View ArticleBy: superna
The "inner city does not have grocery stores" meme seems to be popular with journalists. There was an article along those lines in the St. Paul paper a while back. I live in one of that article's...
View ArticleBy: gjc
Does detroit have the equivalent of Whole Foods? Whole Foods isn't a grocery store, it is an over-priced boutique. Hint: when you are poor, you don't stock up because you can't afford it. Trader Joe's...
View ArticleBy: limeonaire
This is a good piece. But fact-checker, check thyself: Trader Joe's and Aldi are not owned by the same company, despite what the writers of the Freakonomics blog would have you believe.
View ArticleBy: selton
Honest question: Why would a supermarket chain not want to open in Detroit or any other city for that matter ? Do they fear mass shoplifting or riots or that the locals only eat take aways & don't...
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