More rethinking grocery stores for the urban setting

Toilet paper at Wegmans. Flickr photo by Martyz.
Toilet paper somewhere else...

I've written quite a bit about a form of the bigness complex unnecessarily influencing how urban dwellers look at retail, especially supermarkets. Do we need behemoth supermarkets, or can we do as they say in the "women's magazines" and "edit"? After all, are you really better off when you go into a grocery store and have access to 60+ kinds of toilet paper?

The New York Times has a story about a "new" somewhat upscale Long Island grocery store that also has a cafe, in the article "Not Just a Grocery Store, a Destination." It's a similar thought to my mention in another blog entry a few weeks ago of the Urban Market.

Kirk Condyles for The New York Times. Patrick Ambrosio, cheese manager at Bernard's Market and Cafe. The store in Glen Head has drawn shoppers from nearby villages.

Bernard's Market and Cafe "replaced an abandoned restaurant and is a modern glassy structure belted with a lead-coated copper band on the outside and three windowed pyramidlike peaks that bring light into large areas of the 6,000-square-foot store and adjoining cafe" and "specializes in freshly prepared foods for people who are too busy to cook. "

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