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CharacterBrief9121 t1_isylhao wrote

Reply to comment by ThunderySleep in As Wawa shutters Center City stores, Philly DA Krasner plays defense by User_Name13

I don’t live in Philly but have been there a few times. I don’t know enough about it. But in my town when the chain groceries came in everything else died. And it was Weis and Wegmanns. Not bad stores either it just crushed any competition. Virtually the same as Walmart and small shops. Impossible to compete.

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ThunderySleep t1_isym6t2 wrote

Big box stores definitely did a number on down-town America. It's been revived some places, but mostly in nicer, kind of touristy areas that can support enough restaurants and fancier boutique shops to create foot traffic. I'm just saying, these stores in particular aren't located in what would be a food desert by anyone's definition if they saw them.

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