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Delivery Killed The Grocery Store (Maybe)

Further thoughts on the small grocery store problem

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Addison Del Mastro
May 26, 2025
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I want to throw out a few follow-up thoughts on my recent piece about small-format supermarkets, specifically touching on a few small-format stores in the D.C. area that were pretty new but went out of business. And I wonder in that piece how we can get back to having everyday retail scaled to urban neighborhoods instead of car-oriented suburban areas. …

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