Ha my wife’s family is very loyal to Costco so that was the map I was visualizing

I think you are probably right and that's a legit point to make. Dorsey seems to be in a shitty spot where he has to say "It'll be different THIS time!".. I wonder how many times someone like Torrence has heard that.

Harvest Fare in Hamilton.

What about "Save=a-Lot"?

If you're in Hampden on a weekend, Maillard Patisserie.

If you're on jury duty, Patisserie Poupon.

Idk what this means? Minimum wage is not a living wage nor should it be. Minimum wage is meant for jobs that require minimum skills. When you’re going to college and need beer money or retired and want to stay mobile. There are tons of jobs out there that pay above min wage however you have to adhere to a strict 9-5/5 schedule. With service work, you have the flexibility to work different hours but with that flexibility comes the trade off of potentially lower wages. I know a ton of restaurant works who make really good money and they bust their ass for it. Imo if you’re working for min wage in a restaurant you should only be doing so to learn the business and start your own thing…

agreed, and their grocery selection is improving. i shop here for the convenience of not having to go to multiple stores for different things (household items are so much more expensive at grocery stores) & i can get my husband to pick up our drive up order on his way from work when our newborn isn’t in the mood to go to the store lol

I wonder if some of Torrance's opposition isn't economic, but cultural - poor Black neighborhoods have a long and sad history of getting the short end of the stick when the government decides to 'improve' the city (see Preston Gardens, Cross Keys, the Highway to Nowhere, what's currently going on in Poppleton, anything referred to as slum clearance, etc). I'd be wary of policy designed to make development easier if those policies always seemed to end up hurting my community in the past...

No surprise that Wegmans is the cheapest "traditional" grocery store on the list. We schlep out to the Wegmans in Owings Mills every week because it's cheap and they have fantastic selection on just about everything. I'd also be curious to see how Eddie's fares in this comparison. The one in Mount Vernon has never let us down when we needed a giant deli sandwich and some Taharka Bros, but they also have booze and a decent selection of groceries -- just haven't tried doing all of our regular shopping there.

I read about this a few weeks ago. My recollection is that the While L (except for neighborhoods with covenants) is already zoned for multifamily, while the Black Butterfly is not. I think this validates Dorsey's position even more.

https://sbworkersunited.org/red-cup-map

I have always found Moms and Sprouts to be worse than whole foods at whole foods prices.

>I always thought Harris Teeter basically sucked

Man. I moved to Canton from two places that were a walk to whole foods and I soon found that these supermarkets suck. Safeway and Teets are WF prices without the quality. And Sprouts is about the same except they are really proud of their stale coffee.

So I drive (sigh) to WFs or Aldi.

I wish they did Target because I have been consistently surprised when comparing prices there and for certain categories of things their prices are a lot better

>Also you have to hike out to the suburbs to shop there.

There is a BJs in Canton (almost).

What are the 100+ stores you reference and where are they located?

>but their meat and seafood prices are ludicrous

Yeah. At least when it comes to steak and salmon they are higher than Whole Foods, despite not being as high of quality.

They are over thinking it. Make coffee at home, sell it outfront, make double salary

I did that with an old Volvo 240 wagon with a stick shift. The guys who bought were pumped, because they did demolition derbys and this was a perfect car for that. Steel. Station wagon. Stick shift.

Vaccaro's or Bmore Licks.

>I think Torrence's concern is that the logical choice for multi-family conversions would be houses in neighborhoods where poor people currently live

I just don't see how anyone would think that this would be the case, a councilmember nonetheless. We can look at the census data and see which neighborhoods are growing and which aren't. A developer would be pretty stupid if they think "Lets build where there is no demand".

Nobody's obligating you to go there

That's my biggest problem, I walked into Aldi's once to try it out and get a week or so worth of food, and at the end I walked out with a cereal I didn't really want because they didn't have anything else I wanted.

Sacred Sucre macarons and they make these little layer cake thingies

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