Planned grocery store to end Westside food desert

[CMF Newsman]

Today, a gallon of milk. Tomorrow, save public housing?

A low-income Chattanooga community that hasn't had its own grocery store in two decades is about to get a welcome neighbor.

One Stop Shop, a grocery store that will include a deli, frozen meat, produce, milk and bread is scheduled to open on the Westside in May and by summer for sure, said owner Mohamed Saleh.

For the nearly 3,000 residents who live in the community -- a number of them elderly and disabled -- getting a store is "a big deal," said 70-year-old Adair Darland.

www.wrcbtv.com/story/17184934/planned-grocery-store-to-end-westside-chattanooga-food-desert

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There are reasons grocery stores in that area failed in the past. I have to wonder if those reasons have been addressed and something done to make current efforts successful.

[Half-Tard]

poor people run a good businesses out. They steal, they tear-up the restrooms, and frankly they're too stupid. He'll do good with EBT, but with shrink and vandalism . I give it 6 months.

[zodiacman]

Mar 19, 2012 7:02:42 GMT -5 @yodanbr2 said:

There are reasons grocery stores in that area failed in the past. I have to wonder if those reasons have been addressed and something done to make current efforts successful.

Maybe the people who caused grocery stores in that area to fail in the past are now too old and too hungry to continue with such nonsense.

[Half-Tard]

Maybe the people who caused grocery stores in that area to fail in the past are now too old and too hungry to continue with such nonsense.

Let's hope but if they spawned kids, just a new cycle of the same. That's all they know. Reason those neighborhoods never change. They want handouts not a hand up. Sad but True!!