[TGE-mail] St. Louis Supermarket

[Andrew Weil]

Drew, I understand your concern, but you have to think about what St.  Louis supermarket currently is, what ALPS is going to be, and what an  Apple Market will be.  St. Louis supermarket is cheap, but it also  carries basically crappy junk food, beer, liquor, and predatory loans.  ALPS also specializes in low quality, low price "bargain food" (read  "juice" which is actually just sugar water and coloring). Then there is  Apple Market, which is focused on fresh foods (fruits and vegetables).  While Apple Market is no Whole Foods, (It is still a "concept" of a  bargain based company), the AWG website says that these stores are  focused on Fresh Foods and "high quality perishables."  I think  the real dis-service to those who are "less well heeled" is not  bringing a store with high quality food into our neighborhood. The real  dis-service to our less well off neighbors would be for the rest of us  to continue to commute to nicer stores where healthy options are  available,
 leaving the poor behind to shop in glorified 7-11's.  A  grocery store that focuses on fresh foods is not necessarily a  "yuppymart," and if more fresh/healthy foods were available in poor  areas, we wouldn't see such poverty-predicted health problems in this  country

cronyn at pol.net wrote:  Before we all jump on the bandwagon of trying to get this supermarket made
into a Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Apple Market, etc... in the upscale
variety, let's remember that a lot of our neighbors don't have the money
to shop at such places while those of us who can afford to shop at them
can probably afford to drive to Kirkwood.

It's one thing to take an old, shuttered supermarket like Foodland and
make it into a yuppiemart; it's an entirely different thing to take one of
the only large markets that caters to the less well-heeled on this part of
Grand and make it into a yuppiemart.

Just my opinion.

Drew Cronyn
31xx Shenandoah



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