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b_b  ·  4250 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Whole Foods opens in Detroit with hoopla, eager crowd | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

This place is only a few blocks from my condo. I drove by this morning on my way to work. It was crazy, people everywhere, media too; the mayor and one of MI's senators were both there from what I gather. Quite a spectacle for our humble little town. I'll shop there when I need something, but I plan to stick with the smaller place down the road as a first option.

    But the arrival of an upscale Whole Foods store -- the company’s first-ever site in an inner-city neighborhood -- struck many as worthy of an above-average celebration.

Uh, is Austin not an inner city? They started as a small place right in the heart of Austin.





thenewgreen  ·  4250 days ago  ·  link  ·  

True. I've been there and it's definitely not in the burbs. I've also been to a Whole Foods in downtown Chicago. I wonder how they are defining "inner city" or even "neighborhood?"

I know that WithLoveFromDet has got to be excited about this addition to Detroit.

b_b  ·  4250 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They mean "around this many blacks". Bad writing, but I've come to expect nothing less from Free Press.

thenewgreen  ·  4250 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, in that case they may actually be accurate about it being the first.