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By ScreamingViking (registered) | Posted May 11, 2012 at 22:38:38

I don't live downtown so I can't really comment on whether the "desert" exists - mapping "Hamilton supermarkets" in Google shows quite a few smaller places but whether that means there is enough around to serve the population adequately perhaps others can say (and it would appear just based on the maps that the real desert in the lower city lies between Wentworth and Kenilworth south of Barton)

I know from personal experience though that the major chains are very competitive and pay close attention to their stores' local market areas. And before they decide a new location is warranted it must show that it will have enough market share to be profitable. Right or wrong from the community perspective, it would appear that corporate market researchers have determined that there is no benefit for their brands to locate right in the core.

That could very well change in the future, depending on how downtown residential intensification pans out.

A co-op may make a lot of sense until the marketplace downtown changes further.

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