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		<title>Small Retail Stores, Core Customers and the Future of Food</title>
		<description>Discuss Small Retail Stores, Core Customers and the Future of Food</description>
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			<title>Alice Julier says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I agree with Bill's comment: interestingly, some of Giant's Get-Go locales are simply amped-up convenience stores while others (Giant Eagle Express) are really mini-supermarkets. In fact, they're often placed within a few miles of each other. The testing ground will be in perishables: fresh items are what people in the "food deserts" need and want most, but they are also notoriously hard to find (from the customer's point of view) and hard to manage (from the store's perspective).]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Alice Julier</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Bill Gerba says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One has to wonder whether the rise of small stores will bring with it a rise in prices. After all, cost per square foot is typically higher in smaller stores, and that seems like it would have to translate to higher costs for shoppers.
Of course, one might also price in convenience, but the lower-income shoppers who often populate the food deserts might not be too thrilled (or too able) to pay more simply because a store is closer to home.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bill Gerba</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Online Supermarkets says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The boom on micro-supermarkets and online grocery delivery in the UK seems to support your identification of 'food deserts' (easily mis-spelt as the 'food desserts'). Tesco Metro has exploded in sub urban areas and have been so effective that house prices in the immediate surrounding have increased. An additional source of fresh produce is the petrol forecourt. Placed in accessible locations but often far from a supermarket, some of the major food retailers have exploited the locations to attract significant - and sustainable - business.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Online Supermarkets</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Bill Gerba says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The trend towards small layouts and reconnecting with core shoppers was already showing strength even before the recession hit. Starbucks was testing out 160 sq. ft. microstores in areas with high concentrations of core customers (who probably weren't uttering 16-word incantations to order their cup o' joe either), and Best Buy was trying out a few stores about 1/3 the size of their typical layout.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bill Gerba</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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