Let’s be honest – you can’t have a growing residential area without a supermarket: the first thing most prospective homeowners or renters look for when choosing a neighborhood is a convenient place to buy food. Even the most dedicated restaurant hoppers occasionally need a quart of milk, a bag of coffee, a can of soup and/or an egg at 9 p.m. And they need a safe, clean, modern place to buy them.

Additionally, and with all due respect to small local grocers, you really can’t claim to be a city on the comeback without a modern facility, with scanners, etc. (Don’t laugh – the supermarkets in my native New York City installed scanners literally decades behind the rest of the country.)

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