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[allovertheplace]

So after a couple years Ive made the "final" trip back home.
One thing I wished I had asked but failed to was, are Korean aware or Korean grocery stores in the U.S?
These places, for all you non city dwellers, are located solely in ghetto areas of U.S cities. They sell nothing but crap food and play upon the lack of economic choices and job base that urban areas have and sell primarily chips, grape soda, and frozen food.
I find these locations reprehensible places which actually make the citizenry overweight and highly prone to diabetes. For people that dont understand, the people, primarily black, who shop here, have no other food options to shop at.
To me, this fairly well represents the unethical business practices of Koreans.
But I wonder, do Koreans even know what these are, and who opens them?

[tatertot]

Huh?

[djsmnc]

I think every little grocery store or convenience mart sells crap, regardless of who the owner is. Back home there are a lot of people with the "munchies" that are satiated by sugar, grease, and the associated preservatives found in processed foods. More power to Koreans who hop on the bandwagon opportunity to run a hole in the wall Kwik-E-Mart in an ugly part of town. There are some pretty nice* Korean owned businesses in some of the various Koreatowns as well.


* "Nice" indicates a relative Korean standard quality of businesses created to cater to a mostly Korean clientele that wants to feel at home.

[pkang0202]

[coralreefer_1]

I never saw any Koreans at any of those store. In my city,which is not a large city like LA or NY, all of the Korean supermarkets are on the rich side of town, because that is where the Koreans live.

I think there is a distinction between a Korean grocery store (ie..selling Korean goods) and a simple convenient store owned by a Korean.

[SFValley]

From your thread title, I thought you were wanting to know where Korean grocery stores were in the U.S. so that you could continue in your Korean food appreciation here in the States. Guess I was wrong? Not actually sure what this thread is about, actually.

[mises]

[pkang0202]

I know Koreans who own these small convenience stores in the ghetto.

Koreans opened them because no other people (except Indians nowadays) would open a store in the ghetto for fear of getting robbed. These places get held up at gunpoint at LEAST once a year.

Secondly OP, people sell what people want to buy. If the blacks in the ghetto wanted to buy broccoli and fresh fruit then they would stock those. Instead, the people want to buy snacks, 40's, and Newports.

Lastly, the OP is a troll.

OP, I dare you to open op a "healthy food" store in one of these neighborhoods. If the blacks want healthy food, and the Koreans aren't selling any, then obviously you'd make a killing in profits! Do it. Oh wait, its dangerous in those areas and you don't have the balls.

[Bronski]

[obvious]Healthy food is more expensive. That's why health food stores are in rich neighborhoods.[/obvious]

[Crockpot2001]

Are you f'n high, Troll? Sure some little K-markets are in the hood. But, I spend a week in Carrollton, tx and another in Portland and the K-markets there were vastly better than ANYTHING here. Clean, efficient, great selection and better prices than here. Also, all the cass pitchers were dusty as not-even the Koreans will drink that shit when they return home. Other beers offered included Le fin Du Monde, Muddite, Rogue ales, and some great Belgian beers. If these stores (I went to about 5) were near my residence in the US I would certainly shop there.

[CeleryMan]

Cash is king baby! What Uncle Sam don't see he can't tax, right?

[Jane]

The only thing those store owners of foolish of is potentially risking their lives opening businesses higher crime areas. They feel the risk is smaller than the profit, so let them. If they don't, maybe there won't be anyone willing to take over the businesses, and empty storefronts equal further urban decay and higher crime.

Surrounding residents can speak with their cash, and if they aren't pleased with the selection, they can let it be known. The owners are not responsible for individuals' nutrition and diets.

On a side note, it seems like Korea towns, no matter in what country, haven't been updated since the 70's. Why is that? Why do Koreans not take pride in their areas on the whole?

[the oak llama]

we have:

latino corner stores and korean corner stores and vietnamese corner stores.

regardless of race, those people are there 7 days a week. I'm pretty sure it's not a scam. I think they stock stuff that people buy because they're not retarded. I get 40s there just like the colored people do.

about every 6 blocks in the hood there is a chinese restaurant. these places sell terrible food along with cigarettes and blunts. Sometimes I go to these places and buy the same things the colored people buy.

There are also produce trucks set up on corners that sell vegetables and fruits. I shop there along with the colored people.

Now I don't know what to think because sometimes it's like we're real similar, the colored people and I.

[djsmnc]

We used to have a ghetto mart we stopped that we called the "Stab and Grab"

or the "Shoot and Scoot"

or the "Gun and Run"

[Yaya]