Supply & Demand and Overhead are the factors to remember in
contemplating large grocery stores in “Blighted Urban
Areas.”

In the 80’s, either the Denver Post or the Rocky Mountain
News ran an expose, chronicling how one chain consistently
charged higher prices in poorer areas. The reasoning went
that people in poorer areas had less access to auto travel
to price shop & consequently the mark up could be greater.
Of course in the stores defense their reasoning went that in
these areas shrinkage and security costs were greater and
this accounted for the price disparity.

Now the Bodega gouge question is just pure capitalism,
whatever the market will bear- Supply & Demand,w/ the
overhead of lawyers for when the numbers bust comes down.



DD