How Many Grocery Stores?

are within 10 minutes drive of your house. I'll be back on later to hopefully check your responses, make a few witty remarks, a few insights, and then give you my number.

of course this is damn important as it relates to urban sprawl, and a general lost sense of place.

 

Well, I am right downtown, so there are 3 grocery stores, no wait 4, within ten minutes of my house.

 

There is at least 8 within ten minutes of my house.

 

Ten minutes? I live in the middle of nowhere, and there is NONE within ten minutes....fifteen minutes? One....

 

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This is easy. None lol

 

There are two little shops on the campus (where I live), but they're not really grocery stores... Other than them, the closest one is about 20mins away (by bus).

 

i live practically in the very heart of rochester. within 10 minutes walk, there are three, including my natural foods co-op, and if you count the little mom & pop convenience store down monroe avenue as a grocery, and don't count the rite aid. within driving distance, i'm not sure...there's the weggie's & R's market in pittsford...are we counting wilson farms? there's another wegman's on east avenue. but although there are over-priced convenience stores, and it's possible to get packaged meals and cans of soup at rite aid, there are fewer real grocery stored than there were before, the IGA downtown and the wegman's on mt. hope were closed, and this is creating a problem for a lot of people in the city who have no transportation - weggie's would rather put its money into the obscenely huge, unnecessarily luxurious suburban stores, like the one in pittsford, which i guess is considered some kind of supermarket "model" for the country. as more and more businesses desert the city for the inaccessible, paved-over, affluet sprawl of the suburbs, it's creating a serious problem, as both jobs and places to shop for food dry up and disappear.


for some reason, people here in rochester are a little nutty about their grocery stores, especially wegman's. the one in pittsford has a full-service restaraunt, patisserie, sushi bar & wokery, pizzaria, sub shop, and natural foods store all within it. people make judgements about one's social/economic status based on which wegman's one shops at: shopping at the pittsford weggies is some kind of a status symbol, while shopping at the one on mt. hope made you "trash". i am totally serious when i tell you people have actually had their weddings held in the big pittsford wegman's, and as for the urban "ghetto weggie's" in the poorer neighborhoods, it's usually determined that these stores don't make "enough" money (as compared to the enormous three-ring circus of a store in wealthy pittsford) and are closed down, leaving the local people with no where to buy food. it becomes necessary for the poorer urban residents to take one of the rare busses to another part of the city, or out to the suburbs, struggling with a cart of groceries and often a gaggle of kids on a crowded, often-late city bus.

suburban sprawl, and the automobile dependence, polution, waste of land & resources and environmental destruction it encourages, but there is another side to it as well that is just as dark: in addition to being the death of small town and suburban main streets, the exodus of businesses into the suburbs from the city leaves many neighborhoods a ghost town - those neighborhoods that weren't poor when the businesses left rapidly become so, and the residents are stuck with nowhere to work and shop, and viewed as second-class citizens by both the businesses that leave and the residents of the suburbs they must "invade" by bus in order to continue providing for themselves and their families.

 

About 6

 

about 15 within a 10 minute drive

 

One haha I live in nowheresville... but there are also (i think) two convenience stores, and a mcD's, pizza pizza, sub place, and a china palace.

 

Within a 10 min drive, there are literally probably about 25 here. Maybe more.

 

Wow must be nice. We have the one, and it's so expensive.

 

Five grocery stores

 

6 I can think of.

 

..........................one

 

at least 10.

 

dunno...Never have to go to one...and I don't drive

Holly

 

i can think of 8 but i dont know this area all that much.

 

Hey do those little asian markets count?

If they don't, they should. I buy a whole lot of stuff from them.

 

Enough to know I'm not paying too much for what I'm buying. Yes, yes I am a cheapskate.​