With all the talk about wanting a Harris Teeter in Salisbury, the question needs to be would the community support it? It's hard to say really because like most people in the area cheaper is better and we kinda are a WalMart kinda town. Location is another important factor. Giant has been able to survive because they have a perfect spot not close to any particular grocery on the bookends of town. Would Harris Teeter at the old Super Fresh building be a good thing for Giant and vice versa?
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HT would survive here for a few years,but would eventually fizzle.There must be neutral ground grocery chains interested.The HT's I've been in seem too high end for our area.Even their CEO said the average income on the Eastern Shore is too low to support it.
The more financial alternatives there are, the more the laws of free market competition come into play; income level should not be the sole factor in determining consumer choice; people of every tax bracket should have access to healthier, higher quality options. In addition, higher levels of competition drives prices down, not up; rejecting Harris Teeter ensures that your current retailers have less product quality, price-deliberation, and variety items to worry about. In snubbing what you automatically assume are more are more expensive alternatives, you are inadvertently locking yourselves into an environment much more prone to corporate monopolies and antitrust violations. Consider welcoming new business, nor rejecting it.
Never heard of them. Their prices will tell how long they stay. Nothing personal.
It fits with the fact that the city council has made Salisbury the laughing stock of the state. It is not about HT, it is about attracting any good business to the city
I've driven to Bethany to shop there.
Then 11:58 AM why do you see so many from Del. shopping in salisbury?
They need to get some tech, biotech, and manufacturing jobs. It can be done if they put their minds to it.
There's a Harris Teeter in Sussex County,don't get much more low rent than that!
Yes the students will go for it.
The upper crust near SU are use to that lifestyle
Who doesn't want to purchase that food rather than spend money at a resturant every once in a while?
Women who have no time or desire to cook will also.
Why can't they consider places like Tom thumb/Safeway or even the Piggly Wiggly stores? It's been a long time but we did have a Safeway here at one time. I think we do need the competition here so prices would be a bit lower.
Something along the line of the Food Depot that was in the old mall.Case lots,bulk quantities,etc were available,but single items were available as well.More and more people are accumulating emergency non perishable food.A store that provides bulk and weekly grocery needs would suit SBY just fine.
Salisbury needs to attract more working professionals in order to boost its economy. In order to attract working professionals it needs to expand its retail options; most people coming from Montgomery County, PG County, or Northern VA- esp. people who come to Salisbury for school- are not going to settle down here if it means a permanent downgrade of lifestyle choices. Salisbury's economy is competing with every other economy in Maryland and it is losing- not because it has no room for growth but because the area keeps rejecting new ideas. It isn't just the City Council either; lots of locals don't like anything coming in from over the bridge that might interrupt their way of life... even something as harmless as new retail venues. That's gotta stop or Salisbury will just continue to miss great opportunities.
How about another burger joint too. WTH!
Anon 1:21
There are two Harris Teeters in Sussex County that I know of. Look at the location of them and the communitys around them. They are not low rent areas.
Daily Times on Sunday had a front page article as to why Salisbury won't get quality grocery stores. I find it shocking that the per capita income was 21,359 and adults with college degrees or higher was 25.7 percent of residents. Ellicott City has a per capita of 50,000 and almost 64 percent of adults 25 and over. Salisbury is a shit hole. 21,359 income is shocking. No wonder Walmart has so many fat slobs shopping for junk food and sodas adding to their health issues such as diabetes. I miss Whole Foods, Safeway and Trader Joes. Thank God I can go to Giant for decent foods. We will never see any decent stores until the per capita income and education levels rise. Unfortunaly this will never happen because locals don't seem to value higher education.
No, they will complain about the prices and continue going to Walmart for their groceries.
4:56, locals don't value education and all the SU grads leave because the population consists of said uneducated locals and retired people (possibly come here types), with a tiny smattering of white collar/professional folks. I am not really sure what the answer is but I know that many people don't seem to want their kids to "do better" than them.
What a bunch of snotty comments....do not assume just because someone has a low wage job that they are "uneducated".
Rather they allow a HT to come here or not, I will still travel to one to get quality foods and wide variety! The prices and quality make it worth the drive!
I don't think it's a matter of 'allowing' HT to come... the article in the paper led me to believe they have no interest in coming by using wordage that we are 'less affluent and undereducated', which is a pretty way of saying 'poor and stupid'. Who needs them?
Why did you people move here? Now that you are here you want to change it to the shithole you came from!!
I don't know what the big deal is with Harris Teeter. They sell the same old stuff as any other grocery store. I've lived within 2 miles of one both in Northern VA and now in West Fenwick.
Either Whole Foods or Trader Joe's would be considered "up scale" as they sell products for a niche market esp Whole Foods who concentrates on buying from real family farms (as opposed to factory farms) and real waterman (as opposed to fish farms) and other cottage industry (as opposed to hugh corps like Kraft Foods and Proctor and Gamble) which does make their product more expensive.
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