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leadfoot9 t1_j9to6bq wrote

Reply to comment by HarpPgh in The fall of Pittsburgh Bodegas by HarpPgh

>However, I’d challenge the fact that there are at least 10-12 neighborhoods at this point in time with several demographics (college students, young professionals, people who live on their own) that would greatly benefit from a small one stop shop and there’s simply nothing other than a junk store or a dollar general

Oof reminds me of college.

To that point, I'd like to propose 2 additional factors:

  1. Universities being real estate moguls that drive up property prices and crowd out low-margin grocery businesses.

  2. Universities monopolizing the food industry with "dining halls"... to the point that many students are required to buy food from the university as a condition of their enrollment.

I'd also say that students are too overworked to cook for themselves, but that's probably highly degree-dependent.

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