I would love it if there was a REAL market on Hamilton Hill. Why couldn't Golub or Walmart put a mini market here like the one at Mohawk Commons?
Sadly RP it's more than likely a combination of location and profitability. Sometime in the '90's, when Golub was still using a Mini-market concept they built a brand new Mini-chopper in Arbor Hill in Albany. I happened to spend some time there working as a contractor preparing for a grand opening and they were already having a serious theft and vandalism problem. Although I'm not certain exactly how long that store stayed open, I do think it was less than 6 months. They were paying more for loss prevention and security than anything else, and in the grocery business where profits are measured in pennies it made no sense to continue there. Sad but true.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,"
Sadly RP it's more than likely a combination of location and profitability. Sometime in the '90's, when Golub was still using a Mini-market concept they built a brand new Mini-chopper in Arbor Hill in Albany. I happened to spend some time there working as a contractor preparing for a grand opening and they were already having a serious theft and vandalism problem. Although I'm not certain exactly how long that store stayed open, I do think it was less than 6 months. They were paying more for loss prevention and security than anything else, and in the grocery business where profits are measured in pennies it made no sense to continue there. Sad but true.
exactly!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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