No Love for Chain Stores in Fort Greene
What do Fort Greene shoppers want? Not chain stores, that’s for sure. According to a survey just released by the Fort Greene Association, 81 percent of the 380 respondents said that they either “strongly” or “somewhat” preferred shopping at independent stores over chain. Another interesting stat: Only about two-thirds of those polled said that they…
What do Fort Greene shoppers want? Not chain stores, that’s for sure. According to a survey just released by the Fort Greene Association, 81 percent of the 380 respondents said that they either “strongly” or “somewhat” preferred shopping at independent stores over chain. Another interesting stat: Only about two-thirds of those polled said that they were “very likely” or “somewhat likely” to have their daily shopping needs met by stores in Fort Greene; the satisfaction rate was a much-higher 86 percent when it came to restaurants and bars.
Who cares who owns a store? And frankly alot of “chain stores” are actually owned by a real Mom and Pop (like every Subway store and Keyfood for examples).
If a store is convenient (by location and HOURS), provides good service, good prices and a decent environment I’ll shop there.
Papi only sells Tropical Fantasy Soda
Some more sarcasm missed but 1:52
lush and the body shop are mom and pops? if not these there are plenty of high end chains that have what your looking for. im not arguing for or against chains but its just not true that a small independent store necessarily offers better or more choices. some do some don’t. if you want to argue against chain stores pick a different argument.
mom and pops have better brands though.
walmart has all the crappy, chinese made lead based soaps.
the mom and pops have the nice, organic fruit based merchandise made in vermont.
i’ll spend the extra on the latter. i have one body afterall.
uh 1:14 that was my point. you are supporting my argument.
what chain drugstore or supermarket only has: “the same 2-3 limited brands of soap, shampoo, milk, bread, etc that chains often come stocked with.” in general large chains have more variety than mom and pops.
Sorry Biff, once they start writing the ticket–it’s too late.
I’ve made a conscious decision to stay away from chains, if I can find something at an independent.
I’m a big fan of the SuperSavers on 7th Avenue just south of Union. They have great health and beauty supplies for the same price as Duane Reade, but I’ll go out of my way to make sure places like that get my business and stay in business…
“Hell, before Target finally came I used to drive all the way out to Long Island to buy toilet paper.”
So you spent an extra couple dollars on gasoline and added a few extra pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere to save 10 cents on Charmin?
Wow, how earth friendly of you!!!