272
Bars vs Grocery Stores in the United States (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
52 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

6 grocery stores for 100'000 people? here in sweden that's not enough grocery stores for 50k!

with 100k people i'd expect at least 20 stores, if not more.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    in my experience, the grocery stores in sweden tend to be considerably smaller than the grocery stores in the united states. pretty much every grocery store in the US is larger than an ica maxi. there needs to be room for all 20 flavors of toothpaste and all 40 flavors of oreos.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Unless you're counting shit like Dollar General, not even close to that many in the U.S.

    I don't even know how they would survive with that low number of customers. Why would you even need 20?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That person is probably thinking of European size stores. I think grocery stores in the US might just be bigger on average than they are in Sweden? We have some big mega stores here compared to Europe.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •