Gregory Morrow wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/bu...10grocery.html

> The opening of smaller stores upends a long-running trend in the grocery
> business: building ever-larger stores in the belief that consumers want
> choice above all.

Good!! Some of these stores are soooo big it's too much of a chore to
get around in them. And "choice above all"? What a joke! What choice?
You get what they stock, and they stock what THEY choose, period.
Special orders? Fuggedabbouddit! Albertsons, Smiths (Kroger), Harmons
(local chain) all sing the same song: "We don't have enough demand for
that product, so we wont be ordering it for you."

The only downside to the loss of the megamarts is that there will be
even more massive empty box stores darkening commercial areas nationwide.