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Originally Posted by Ustwo
For a while there was even angry talk of forcing Grocery stores to open in those areas or else not be able to have stores in Chicago. Not sure how that extortion worked out for the city counsel.
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Ustwo, the talk wasn't of forcing chains to open stores in those areas (at least that I ever heard). It was of revising the restrictive covenants in their long term leases that stipulated that if a grocery store left a particular location, the owner of the building couldn't lease it out to another grocery store. It's much easier to lease an existing space than build a new one.
And smoore, it has nothing to do with the big box stores. There is only 1 Walmart in the city limits (and was allowed in as a direct result of the "food desert" problem), and Target only started to be an option here about 10 years ago. I'm not certain, but I'm fairly sure that there are no "Super Targets" in the city that also sell food, but I could be wrong.
And we did go to our local Target this weekend, but we walked there with both boys.