On Jul 2, 3:26*pm, Harryk wrote:
On 7/2/11 4:05 PM, Tim wrote:









On Jul 2, 2:25 pm, wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:54:42 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Jul 2, 8:37 am, Wayne *wrote:

That said, store owners in poor
neighborhoods, like store owners everywhere, know their customers and
stock what sells. If people are buying vegetables and dairy products,
they'll stock vegetables and dairy products. If people are buying
Hostess Twinkies and malt liquor, they'll stock that instead. It is a
tribute to our wonderfully enlightened policies that people can
actually use government food stamps to buy junk food, and it sells
very well.

That's pretty well how it works in my area too. just go through any
convenience store. Pizza, beer and chips is the *fare of the day.

And you know this because you live in the inner city? Doubtful.

I guess the NY Times is, as usual, just wrong, because it's not a
right-wing publication?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/he...on/04well.html

I live in a small town surrounded by small towns.It doesn't matter
what the NY Times has to say.But if you think it's "just wrong, as
usual* *I won't be the judge. *I don't live in the 'inner city' and
I'll repeat what i said:

"That's pretty well how it works in my area too. just go through any
convenience store. Pizza, beer and chips is the *fare of the day. "

Most convenience stores don't have the staff to handle any variety of
fresh produce or poultry, meat, fish products. In the inner city, the
situation is even worse because there's no one to go to the large
wholesale markets or produce wholesalers willing to deliver. Most of
what the stores sell is stuff with a long shelf life.


They wouldn't anyway, Harry. that would defeat their purpose. They're
a gas station that sells beer, pizza soda and chips and a few other
things. They're not IGA or Publix.


If you want gas and beer you go to Caseys. If you want salad material
and pork chops you hit up Krogers.