There's a supermarket, a huge grocery store, 3 mini marts, a liquer store, a health food store, and a natural food store within ten minutes (walking) of my camp. So that's 8 in a little mountain town of less than 5000 ppl.
there are places that people live without a grocery store within ten minutes, In this day and age?! No WAY! I can count 10 and 2 abandoned ones, all supermarkets, 6 of them are the same store...everytime it rains, there is a new grocery store somewhere around, they keep getting nicer, and then the older ones redo everything. The area where I live fought to keep wal-mart out, but then they let 17 Meijers which are just the same be built...and a Target I can´t really understand why there are so many grocery stores...most don´t seem that crowded really.
We are considered to be 'out in the sticks' and we have four grocery stores within the 10 minutes and six gas station / markets.
I´ve been living on the edge of town, what was once a small town seperate from the city..when I was growing up here it was city one way, farms the other....now its an old area surrounded by grocery stores in all directions
Within ten minutes ..mmm dozens i guess . At least 3 medium sized supermarkets and countless grocery stores.. hordes of pointless retail outlets all serving crap morning noon and night. It is great, and i love it. <---------- my witty remark :&
I would say there are about umm........ 2 hyvee stores, 4 dillons stores, one food4less and an aldys. so, 8 total.
11, not including the specialty ones, like fruit and veggies or bakeries that also carry some basic food staples.