My town is across a river from Newark NJ, and the residents there have to come here for groceries; it is simply impossible to operate a supermarket in neighborhoods where fast-food workers slide food to you through bulletproof glass and Chinese restaurants, while doing the same, have no seating area at all for customers. It is simply not safe to be in close physical proximity to the kind of people who would subject themselves to the living conditions of our ghettoes, and when they leave the welfare reservation to shop they are met with wariness by people who know what to expect.
A Wal-Mart in my town (thankfully built by a swamp, away from any residential areas) should be required to fund their own police substation; cops are there all the time dealing with Newark residents, and now it will no longer be open 24 hours.
While many neighbors shop a town or two to the north (much “whiter”), I’ll still shop at the local supermarket - at 6 am. Never had a problem, and any Newark residents there at that time are just like me: Getting some shopping done before heading off to work.
Usually seen in upscale neighborhoods.
You know you're in a rough part of town when even the Whole Foods has an armed guard.
This would be unthinkable in any of my local Seattle grocery stores.
But I DO remember armed guards in Baltimore grocery stores when I lived there.
And yes, the Greenmount KFC had bulletproof glass to slide your food through at the counter.
They did have a seating area at the time.
I always wondered how they cleaned the place.
It must have been on "lockdown" to get it done.
Live in Passaic Cnty - would not believe how many times see
people (guess ethnic background) purchase all sort of expensive foods (meats, seafood, etc )with EBT cards
We border Paterson so the scum crawl in to do their “shopping”
6:00am. Good time to do your shopping. Most of the troublemakers are still sleeping off their Thunderbird.
I really miss my old Shoprite. There is a Wegman’s out here about 40 minutes away from me in western NY state... but they are high. Everything out here is high. I really miss my old Shoprite. I don’t miss Newark, though.
I grew up in Carteret. Glad I didn’t leave anything there so I don’t have to go back.