Meijer's 2nd Detroit store is set to break ground May 15th. Expected to be open by 2015.
http://www.mlive.com/business/detroi...d_on_nort.html
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Meijer's 2nd Detroit store is set to break ground May 15th. Expected to be open by 2015.
http://www.mlive.com/business/detroi...d_on_nort.html
There's also a Dots that will be opening soon, in addition to a Payless Shoe Source that's already open.[/QUOTE]
sorry DOTS will not be opening they filed Bankruptcy earlier this year, they are closing all the stores.
I do llike this Meijers, just heard on news today one is going to open on the far west side
On the site of Old Redford High.
So they plan to remove all the abandoned houses in Old Redford and Brightmoor. Wonder how many that is? Wonder what it will look like from the sky when they're done.
Do you know this area? Yes there are some poor neighborhoods in the vicinity but there are also high income neighborhoods as well. It is very much a mixed bag. Do not paint with such a broad brush.
http://www.zillow.com/local-info/MI-...ople/r_270037/
Idiotic? Ignore the statistics all you want. If you think a grocery store catering to EBT card holders signifies any type of recovery you're sadly mistaken. It signifies a company saw how many people have EBT cards within a certain radius and said we can make money here, because unlike a job [[which can be lost), those EBT cards are flush every month. This is not a "Oh we think yuppies are moving in" development.
Unexpected commitment by Meijers. When they put the 8mile store in all i could think was they are trying as hard as possible to build a store thats barely in Detroit
EBT card holders need to eat too breh
Isn't the second location in the general vicinity of Metro Foodland? The speculation is that this could cut sharply into their operations-- the one remaining African American-owned "full service" grocery store in the city.
Quite a tangent. I was addressing your statement that it seems like everyone in the city gets EBT cards. But troll away. Us dummy Detroiters will jus' use are bridge cards and buy pop, chips and cadillacs.
Since you cited statistics: Can you supply the number/percent of Detroiters that receive EBT cards? Can you also compare it to rural communities?
It is a couple of miles away. The grocery store you are thinking of is where Grand River, Southfield and Fenkell meet. The Meijer will be at Six and Grand River; just East of Lahser.
The Foodland definitely has a better location in terms of traffic counts. The Meijer's location is no slouch and they were able to acquire the land on the cheap from the school district. The Meijer will be on the site of the old Redford High.
I would assume that many of Foodland shoppers will only venture to Meijer for big shopping and the Meijer may be able to be tapped by people coming into the area by Foodland because they [[Foodland) have a fuller line of groceries and better service. For example, it is hard to talk to a butcher at a store like Meijer, but a store like Foodland it would be easier to get the cuts in the sizes that you like.
In 2011, 41 percent of Detroit households
reported receiving food assistance. The
rate for Wayne County, outside of Detroit,
was 16.6 percent, while the state, minus
Detroit, came in at 16.5 percent
http://www.datadrivendetroit.org/pub..._SDCReport.pdf
and, if you look at the graph in the materials and the other statistics, I'm guessing it hasn't gone down since 2011...so not all, but about half the households.
Whenever anyone starts a statement by saying "with all due respect", you can be sure that whatever they say has no respect at all.
I doubt everyone in Grandmont-Rosedale, which is not very far away, has an EBT card.
The new store will provide a lot of jobs. Nothing to complain about.
I agree. The market area will be much smaller than the entire City. It will also draw some folks from Redford Twp as most as not your sterotypical suburban wusses. Yes you will get people using EBT cards, Brightmoor is not far from this location; but that happens everywhere. My own observations show that many are used in places like Family Dollar or Dollar General stores that have a much more localized population market.
Agree and I never complained about the jobs aspect of it. This thread, and the narrative of discussion around Detroit seems to use the Meijer openings as proof of some recovery. Everyone with an EBT isn't a recovery. Everyone on EBT signifies economic collapse and is a drain on tax payers.
If Meijer already had a store at that location and closed it, I assume you would say it was evidence of further decline. I'd agree with that.
And yet Meijer deciding to build a store there is not evidence of recovery. What would be evidence of any sort of recovery?
Wow - the gross generalizations are rampant here! No wonder people outside of this area have the impression that Detroit is a garbage pit of worthless welfare trash - we don't need them to say it, folks here do just fine saying it on their own! How disappointing.
On an up side - I think the Marshall's store at 8 Mile is probably the nicest one I've ever been in. It's large, clean, well stocked, and has really great merchandise. When I shopped there recently, there were security guards in vehicles driving all around, and I felt completely safe. If only Somerset had as much visible security!!
the walmarts of the world like it that way. its taxpayer funded profits lining the pockets of the waltons and other 1%.
more people on food stamps = more profits to discount retailers
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/we...ife-food-stamp
50 yrs ago GM was the biggest employer in ohio, now wal mart is. 50 yrs ago GM pay didn't qualify you for government assistance.