There’s an area in Pitt. where they constantly complain there’s no grocery - but the businesses that use to be there left because of thieft. When someone does try to open there just repeats itself.
That is exactly why not just the supermarkets but also department stores left Newark NJ; for the latter, when the stores moved out to new suburban malls, those shoppers never went back into the fallen cities again. Newark is finding out that despite all kinds of gimmicks to attract them, they are NEVER coming back.