Cart Dependence

Costco reproduces suburban land use, transportation, and psychology in miniature

A friend of ours recently moved back to the D.C. area, and she ended up in this part of Arlington, somewhere in the Crystal City/Pentagon City area, where there’s no regular supermarket in walking distance.

That’s not an unusual thing in Northern Virginia, but Arlington is pretty dense, so there should be one or two neighborhood supermarkets. There is a …