H Street's Walmart Will Close Next Month

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5. You are correct. The people who live in that neighborhood can just damn well starve.

As IronLionZion has already pointed out, not everyone in that neighborhood has the luxury you evidently do of being able to choose where to buy groceries.

If you leave out the Gonzaga students and the students from Georgetown Law, the average household income of that store's customer base is surely below the average for DC.

I used to hit the store on the way home from work. The prices were good, and they sold five-pound bags of Quaker grits and cases of Miller Genuine Draft.

I can go somewhere else. The store's neighbors? Not so much. Oh, yes, a few jobs will go missing too.

DU's most recent "I hate Walmart" thread ran back in January. It contained this remarkable post:

I can't imagine buying food at a dollar store

Everything is processed. Many rural people shop at Walmart - at least they now carry organic vegetables and lots of other organic items.

I live rural and the closest tiny town - 10 miles has a great small grocery with lots of Organics but expensive - I shop there during the week but travel to Albuquerque once every 2 months for stocking up at the large natural grocery stores -180 miles round trip - next choice Walmart 80 miles round trip. Our tiny town has 2 dollar stores for a town of under 900.

Right. Get in your car and drive 180 miles round trip to buy groceries. That way, we can hold our heads high and not besmirch our purity by shopping at Walmart.

Please give your opinion some more thought.