What surprised me is that Whole Foods would even think of opening a store in that area - which is a complete s*** h*** - psychotic, drug-addled homeless freely roam the streets, tossing needles all over and using the sidewalks as bathrooms.
And no one does a thing about it.
Entire area smells like urine - not kidding. I almost got knocked off my biked from the smell - it was horrendous. I told my SIL never to take us down that part of town again.
I would suggest the trend here will be....month after...each grocery will determine they can’t profit, and shut down. At the same time, the city will likely provide bus service from ‘loot-centre’ to the nearest still-operating grocery. That operation will endear a year of bad profits, and close down. No matter what direction you go....the city will have to service the ‘loot-crowd’ and expand the shutdown rate.
Even if you have a neighborhood grocery that is 15 miles from the affected zone today....within 3 years, your area will be affected as the looters expand their control.
I’m at that corner several days a week. It is bad, bad, bad.
The Whole Foods is on the ground floor of a mega housing project, which includes some rent-controlled and some below market units, but mainly for profit. The project was planned in 2006. It looked like the timing was great when it was nearing completion, with Twitter a couple of blocks away, and a sh*t-ton of yuppie coders inhabiting the city - just the kind of clientele Whole Foods caters to.
Not any more.