TV notes notes health code violations and typical complaints about the myth of a so-called "food desert" as they report the closing of the "Plaza Apple Market" that's about a mile away from the Country Club Plaza on Cleaver II and 47th.
NBC Action News: "A busy grocery store is closing its doors and shoppers in Kansas City's urban core want to know why..."
The constant robberies inside the store, near the parking lot and all around the place might be the first place to start looking for clues as to the demise of this place.
More to the point . . .
This isn't a great loss given more options like The Rollin' Grocer in Kansas City along with Internets based solutions.
Nevertheless, the meatspace suffers another demise of a beleaguered brick & mortar biz as locals are going to have to start learning more about online or drone delivery of their supplies in the very near future.
You decide . . .
And this is why we can't have anything nice.
ReplyDeleteThe internet is not the solution. The Rolling grocer is a better start.
I think there's a smarter person on this blog who also suggests that moving to parkville is probably a better option.
DeleteMaybe cause they're spending their extra cash at the Dollar store. You get what you pay for. It's like the Rent-A-Center of foods. Quality food is needed. A Farmer's Market like Tony's back in the day.. If you teach a man to fish...
ReplyDelete+1 - there are so many better options out there than grocery stores. Good riddance, I say.
DeleteWhy did it shut down? Shit was overpriced, spoiled and subsidized by the government. I never even saw the inside of that place before word got out what shitty place it was.
ReplyDelete@6:46. Quality food? A Farmer's Market? Yeah, riiiiiiiight. The only people that would actually go there are Volvo driving, Vanity Fair reading Progressives.
ReplyDeleteSo grow your own food geniuses.
ReplyDeleteOh well , I'll be able to going to The Sun Fresh out in Westport , oh , shitola , I'll be there getting a killed robbed carjacked raped , f day bitchery !
ReplyDeletePlace was stolen out of business; the blacks stole so much the store couldn't turn a profit anymore.
ReplyDeleteI am be going to ride the douchebag homosexual agenda street car to getting mize food . Hoping for a white person store somewhere out there that has got no aids infection food for me and my homies !
ReplyDeleteMe myself, I go to the aldi and demand reparations.
ReplyDeleteThey gave me a 25 percent discount last time.
BTW, I'm Chinese!
That last statement, among many others, made absolutely no sense. Failed at humor. Shows lack of intelligence and total disregard for man.. You couldn't show your ass any brighter. So old. So lame. Just a sad little thought of a man. To be continued. Never.
ReplyDeleteThe way I hear it, the owners realized the negro EBT gravy train will be shut down by next summer (thanks President Trump!), so they decided to cut their losses now.
ReplyDeleteThat and getting shoplifted blind by the neighborhood negroes, yes. Very very true.
Ya, mean Blacks steal ???????????????????????
ReplyDeleteNaw', say it ain't soooooooooooo ~ !!!
I'll be damn,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Capitalism fills a vacuum. If this place was profitable it would not be going out of business. The Price Chopper in Leawood on State Line closed too, so the neighborhood doesn't necessarily matter, though in this case it probably doesn't. Maybe it wasn't supported enough, maybe the owner has money problems, maybe both. But to say it was "busy all the time" probably isn't true.
ReplyDeleteThe richer population of KCMO shops online to avoid getting shot by the teens. The poorer population likes the grab and go. All in all, not a recipe for brick-and-mortar retail success.
ReplyDeleteA very small portion of the give-me-my-fair-share crowd, along with the religious food desert crowd shouted down the establishment for a subsidized grocery store and the subsidy has likely run out. Even with a grocery store in the urban core, the same folks continued to claim a food desert situation. Most people that could afford to shop elsewhere did because the quality of food never matched that of suburban stores. Now, we are subsidizing yet another store at Linwood & Prospect. After 10 years, we will be talking about how the store went out of business. It never ends...never.
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