There Are Fewer than 10 Black-Owned Grocery Stores in America
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Damn less than 10
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How many white mom and pop grocery stores are there? I’ve only seen 1 in my lifetime. The rest are chains.
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The only thing scarier is when you google how many Black owned hospitals there are.
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Bull.No organizations track the number, but sources familiar with the situation and some of the remaining grocers suggest that fewer than 10 Black-owned supermarkets remain across the entire country. And the number continues to shrink: In the past two years alone, Sterling Farms in New Orleans, Apples and Oranges in Baltimore, and several branches of Calhoun’s in Alabama have all gone out of business.
In Chicago, food activist Sheelah Muhammad’s father ran a Nation of Islam grocery store that opened in the mid-20th century and partnered with Black producers to set up businesses to supply its food. But, she says, that fell apart in the century’s final decades as society integrated and people gravitated toward large, white-owned chains in a way that earlier generations didn’t.
Why Are There So Few Black-Owned Grocery Stores? | Civil Eats
There are at least 3 in Newark, NJ owned by African Americans. Others owned by Afro Latinos and continental Africans around that city.
How many independently owned stores are there? Not very many. Corporations have the game on lock.
The only way you can survive as an indie is if you own an ethnic store that specializes in products that you can’t find at big Super Markets.
Not much of a market for native born black or white Americans.
The only way you can survive as an indie is if you own an ethnic store that specializes in products that you can’t find at big Super Markets.
Not much of a market for native born black or white Americans.
Are they comparable to conventional grocery stores like Giant, Safeway and H-Mart?
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No, they are smaller scale. Grocery store and Supermarket are different terms the way I see it. What you listed are chain supermarkets.
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One of my homies in ATL said ATL is filled with them
Nahhh I’m going to hit that nikka up tonight foh.
Nahhh I’m going to hit that nikka up tonight foh.
Got it, yeah I think the article is referring to Supermarkets. Still...
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Dollar General is killing whatever is left in them white rural areas.
Dollar General is killing whatever is left in them white rural areas.
How many white mom and pop grocery stores are there? I’ve only seen 1 in my lifetime. The rest are chains.
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Directly because of the growing Spanish speaking population, large supermarket chains also began carrying ethnic food products a few years back.
I almost fell out seeing plantains in Pathmark years ago.
The indie grocery stores catering to those communities survive because they also serve as community social hubs.
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And people in those communities are strongly committed to group economics.
Yeah, Black people need to stop raising money for these large-scale projects without being 100% certain they can present at least a minimum-viable product for supporters to try out.