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In California you have to blame the lack of inner city grocery stores on Democrat lawmakers.
I'm not being partisan here. Just telling it like it is. Check out these regulations. And by the way this is from an excellent article on the difficulty of getting grocery stores into the inner city.
I mean come on. Four acres of parking required? In an inner city?
Top grocery chains say the high cost and low availability of land keeps them away from these neighborhoods.
Full service supermarkets are required to have 50,000 sq. ft. buildings and four acres of parking.
The long permit process in California is also a deterrent.
"It's hard to develop a plan for a large grocery because the building costs and estimates can change significantly over the course of the permit process," says Dave Heylen, vice president of communications for the California Grocers Association, which represents 6,000 stores in California.
The Association says it is working with city officials to overcome legal barriers to new grocery stores
Inner-city L.A. hungers for good grocery stores - CSMonitor.com
and dont forget the hand in hand reason.... the unions!
The inner city here crys... we have no grocery.... but try and get one in.. and the unions have a shit fit and block anything... THEY dont approve of.
Which unions? It's just a screw the poor country (read black)...
the grocery unions here... not sure what they are... safeway, lucky and the like.... WILL NOT ALLOW anything else into the city..... unless THEY approve. Several independent NON union stores have tried to open in areas that need stores... and they were all blocked.
and the city backs that shit
so fuck um.