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MARK MY WORDS. The Bronx is not seeing a WHOLE FOODS anytime soon. Not 5 or 10 years. NOT HAPPENING
People were saying that about Harlem not that long ago, and LOOK at Harlem now. People on City Data just a few years ago were saying Harlem, Bedstuy, and Bushwick could not gentrify, and nothing could be further from the TRUTH.
The Bronx will get a Whole Foods sometime soon. The city would even be willing to give out tax credits to Amazon for opening up a Whole Foods there to further speed up gentrification.
Who cares about Wholefoods, Wegman is way better than overpriced fake organic food.
Whole Foods is really Amazon now, and people can just order food to be delivered to their houses. The stores will just be used as distribution centers. So in a way you're right, who cares if your neighborhood as a Whole Foods when you'll just be able to order your food online.
Whole Foods is really Amazon now, and people can just order food to be delivered to their houses. The stores will just be used as distribution centers. So in a way you're right, who cares if your neighborhood as a Whole Foods when you'll just be able to order your food online.
As if home delivery wasn't available to customer prior to Amazon buying Whole Foods...
Harlem is a part of Manhattan, so that's a factor in why it gentrified a lot more. West Harlem also has two major academic institutions, Columbia University and City College. Columbia has done a huge expansion, contributing to the gentrification. Thus Harlem already has a Whole Foods. West Harlem (Hamilton Heights) has excellent views and there's both Riverstate and Riverbank parks.
But don't worry, Bushwick and Bedstuy will get there.
I hope so. They need to open up a WFs on either Malcolm X or Knickerbocker already.
As if home delivery wasn't available to customer prior to Amazon buying Whole Foods...
So sarcastic and bitter. Yes, there was Fresh Direct before, and yes there were other delivery services. But Amazon's buyout of Whole Foods took things to an all new level. I know you felt special shopping at high end Whole Foods, which was bought out by Amazon, a company that sells to the masses. Quite clearly in business mass matters more than CLASS.
Whole Foods is really Amazon now, and people can just order food to be delivered to their houses. The stores will just be used as distribution centers. So in a way you're right, who cares if your neighborhood as a Whole Foods when you'll just be able to order your food online.
You are missing the point, is not about how good Whole Foods is, it is about how it signals to higher income people that that area is OK for them to move into. is like planting a big flag to mark gentrified land.
and about south Bronx getting a HFs? dude even Newark has one.
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