Mayor works to find replacement for Albertson's

[mac]

What I want to know is why areas such as North Tulsa, Owen Park , Brady Heights, downtown and the Riverview Area are having so much trouble getting and keeping grocery stores and pharmacies when in midtown they teardown perfectly good houses to build yet another one?
Do these business owners think these people don't want or need these businesses nearby? Look at the potential! It is an untapped market.

[aoxamaxoa]

1) the demographics are weak
2) lots of merchandise shrinks out the doors

The city continues to make the mistake of thinking they are in the real estate business.

At one time Wal Mart focused on the Pine and Peoria site. Manipulators close to city hall focused on Albertson's instead of the Neighborhood Grocery concept Wal Mart was trying out. As long as discussions continue for a Super center in the East end, Wal Mart will not cannibalize their own sales in the same trade area by taking the old Albertson's space.

Private enterprise should be left to the citizens. Capitalism works in free markets.

[Double A]

The title of this post is a joke, right? I hope you are being sarcastic. She's been working too hard hiking fees, passing regressive sales taxes, buying a crystal castle, wearing out her knees for the PGA and campaigning at DFest for the "youth vote" to have time for that. Remember how Kitty sold her great business acumen(something about being a CEO Mare) and how she would be proactive and ahead of the curve? She was really proactively ahead of the curve on this, wasn't she? Wake up North Tulsa. Make Life Bitter.

[YoungTulsan]

Is there actual data to indicate that crime, and theft ("shrink") were a big problem at this store?  Or are people just assuming due to the location?

For people who frequent the area, did the parking lot look as if business was good, bad, decent?

[deinstein]

I delivered to the Pharmacy a lot and there was never that much business at all.

It's a lower income area more fit for something like a Warehouse Market, etc. Not Albertsons which has always been overpriced.