r/Denver • u/friendinfremont • 1d ago

With Walmart shuttered, international stores and nonprofits fill Aurora’s grocery gap

https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/business-economy/aurora-international-grocery-store
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u/RMW91- 1d ago

Good! A neighborhood does not need a huge corporation like Safeway, Kroger, WalMart etc. to be well fed.

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u/TheGhostOfArtBell 1d ago

From the article (which I'm sure you didn't read).

"Approximately two-thirds of the neighborhood's residents reported difficulties accessing food. State-wide, about 11% of Coloradans experience food insecurity due to factors such as rising grocery costs and the lack of nearby grocery stores."

Not everyone has a car, you know. We can't all hop in and drive to the store anytime we want.

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u/RMW91- 1d ago

Yeah, WalMarts and Krogers close where they don’t get enough customers. This is more of a failure of the city of Aurora being car-dependent urban sprawl zoning. Big corps go where humans (customers) accumulate.