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Bars vs Grocery Stores in the United States
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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
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I would think most places would have more bars than grocery stores. Even a pretty big town usually only needs what, 5 or 6 grocery stores for a population of under 100,000? And they can be more distant. People like bars to be near them and they generally don't have the capacity of a grocery store, so you need more of them. Overhead is much lower too, obviously.
6 grocery stores for 100'000 people? here in sweden that's not enough grocery stores for 50k!
with 100k people i'd expect at least 20 stores, if not more.
in my experience, the grocery stores in sweden tend to be considerably smaller than the grocery stores in the united states. pretty much every grocery store in the US is larger than an ica maxi. there needs to be room for all 20 flavors of toothpaste and all 40 flavors of oreos.
Unless you're counting shit like Dollar General, not even close to that many in the U.S.
I don't even know how they would survive with that low number of customers. Why would you even need 20?
That person is probably thinking of European size stores. I think grocery stores in the US might just be bigger on average than they are in Sweden? We have some big mega stores here compared to Europe.
yeah ours are oftentime closer to convenience stores, and distributed fairly evenly so people largely just go to the closest one. Stuff like walmart is terrifyingly big, that's what i'd consider an entire mall.
You must mean grocery stores in us sense (i. e. gigantic)
This is for shops in a 75k city in my country. I guess there are far more that are not shown at this zoom.
I do, but then it’s a map of the U.S.
I thought we wanted walkable cities with grocery stores on every corner???
What we may want what what the reality is are two very different things.