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[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I would think most places would have more bars than grocery stores. Even a pretty big town usually only needs what, 5 or 6 grocery stores for a population of under 100,000? And they can be more distant. People like bars to be near them and they generally don't have the capacity of a grocery store, so you need more of them. Overhead is much lower too, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

6 grocery stores for 100'000 people? here in sweden that's not enough grocery stores for 50k!

with 100k people i'd expect at least 20 stores, if not more.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unless you're counting shit like Dollar General, not even close to that many in the U.S.

I don't even know how they would survive with that low number of customers. Why would you even need 20?

[–] BottleOfAlkahest 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That person is probably thinking of European size stores. I think grocery stores in the US might just be bigger on average than they are in Sweden? We have some big mega stores here compared to Europe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

yeah ours are oftentime closer to convenience stores, and distributed fairly evenly so people largely just go to the closest one. Stuff like walmart is terrifyingly big, that's what i'd consider an entire mall.

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