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Old 04-03-2019, 08:58 AM
 
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Journalism at its best. First of all, the county as a whole is not a food desert. WOuld it have been too much to say, some parts of the county are food deserts?

Second, I feel for the poor lady who said she wanted a Trader Joes. Does she not know that the fresh food section in Trader Joes is smaller than Target's?

But I digress. Shoppers needs to be replaced by another full-service grocer. One that has a pharmacy and other services. Trader Joe's is a neighborhood convenience store and wouldn't be able to serve the communities as well as Shoppers did.
IDK my Mom seems insistent that there aren't enough grocery stores in PG county, and nothing will make her change her mind on that matter. I heard they are replacing the closed Safeway in Capitol Heights. I think the general belief is that Shoppers stores will get replaced by different grocery stores, mostly Giant. The one in Lanham and the one in Aspen Hill will most likely get replaced by Giant. Not sure what the one in Largo will become. In general it's just the poorer areas of PG county that are considered a food desert.
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Old 04-03-2019, 01:28 PM
 
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In general it's just the poorer areas of PG county that are considered a food desert.
Including College Park until the Lidl opens up.
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Old 04-03-2019, 03:24 PM
 
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Including College Park until the Lidl opens up.
Right. I forgot about College Park. Was surprised about that one.
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Old 04-03-2019, 08:49 PM
 
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There's a Shopper in the Vista Gardens area. I don't see that one leaving anytime soon.
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Old 04-04-2019, 03:39 AM
 
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I realize it 's hard to understand but Groceries is still a business and many of the Old time grocers have left becuase they just couldn't be "profitable" in those areas'. There are many great people /residents in those areas but the truth is most of the profits were "walking out the door" in many of those stores".

//www.city-data.com/locations/G...County-MD.html
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Old 04-04-2019, 04:21 AM
 
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too many criminals coming in and stealing. Keep your doors locked in those areas, you could be next.
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Old 04-04-2019, 05:17 AM
 
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Including College Park until the Lidl opens up.
Too bad as I like that Shoppers. But for the record the Greenbelt Giant is just 2 miles away from downtown CP. Perhaps not as convenient for CP residents but I wouldn't call CP a food desert one Shoppers leaves.
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Old 04-04-2019, 07:54 AM
 
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too many criminals coming in and stealing. Keep your doors locked in those areas, you could be next.
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A 2008 Columbia University study of more than 40,000 Americans showed that it’s not the least among us doing the most thieving. “Shoplifting . . . was more common among those with higher education and income, suggesting that financial considerations are unlikely to be the main motivator,” the researchers concluded.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.8bba7e4e8a15


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Most non-professional shoplifters don’t commit other types of crimes. They’ll never steal an ashtray from your house and will return to you a $20 bill you may have dropped. Their criminal activity is restricted to shoplifting and therefore, any rehabilitation program should be “offense-specific” for this crime.

http://www.shopliftingprevention.org...er/statistics/
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Old 04-04-2019, 08:29 AM
 
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OK, that's been known for quite awhile. It still doesn't negate that product shrinkage is cited as a factor in many, if not most cases, when stores, primarily groceries, close in poorer areas. That, an lower incomes in the area, doom the stores.

One thing I found absolutely fascinating when I moved to "wealthy" Maryland from poorer Pennsylvania thirty five years ago was that groceries in Black areas (groceries being Giant and Safeway) carried crap compared to those in White areas. Even though the Black area had higher income than the White area. I even watched one store transition from carrying better foods to crap as the area transitioned to mostly Black from mostly White.
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Old 04-05-2019, 04:56 AM
 
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I realize it 's hard to understand but Groceries is still a business and many of the Old time grocers have left becuase they just couldn't be "profitable" in those areas'. There are many great people /residents in those areas but the truth is most of the profits were "walking out the door" in many of those stores".

//www.city-data.com/locations/G...County-MD.html
This is old but relevant...............


https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...=.327bb714cf43



Couple accused of stealing from Giant food stores in five counties | Springford Reporter Valley Item | montgomerynews.com


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Southwest...The Little Quadrant That Could: Safeway Security Procedures to Change
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