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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (410149)	8/25/2008 9:07:38 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575608

But it's funny how there wasn't much of an alternative in neighborhoods like South Central L.A. Just a few years ago, Inglewood successfully blocked Wal-mart from building a store there. The activists there (including Jesse Jackson) claimed it would harm the community, as if Inglewood had any life to begin with. I still don't see any sign that Inglewood is on the road to recovery. Just think, if Wal-mart had actually opened a store in Inglewood, all those price-gouging, low quality mom-n-pop shops would have to close down. Including the Korean ones. Go figure. Some interesting LA history I learned after the riots in the 1990s. After the first black riots in the 1960s, city leaders promised South Central would get supermarkets. It was the most undermarketed section of the city. Apparently over the years, it never happened. Supermarket chains complained they did not understand the food needs of blacks. That insurance companies would not give them insurance or if they did, the premiums were exorbitant. That they wouldn't be able to make money. There was always some excuse. In the better LA neighborhoods, it was not unusual to see 3-4 supermarket chains within 4 blocks of each other but in S. Central, you could go miles and not see a one. Well after the 1992 riot, city leaders promised more supermarkets in S. Central. Once again, it looked like they would renege. But about the time I left 1999 one of the S. CA chains was starting to open stores in S. Central. One was so successful they were making money hand over fist and apparently, other chains became interested. Don't know what has happened since. As for Wal Mart.....it has a bad rep throughout the West.