Re: Loyalty cards again

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> You live in Scotland.  Scotland is a beautiful place; I've been
>> there.  It's beautiful, and it's small.
> 
>> I live in the US.  The US is approximately the size of Europe, ...
> 
> What does the size of one's country have to do with how close a
> grocery store is likely to be?  Larger countries will of course
> have more grocery stores.

Country size doesn't matter, but distribution of population does, and much
of the US has very low population density. For example, no one would ever
build a supermarket in my town. The population density of the town and the
surrounding area is too low to sup****t it. The only reason we have a
store of any type is because of the nearby lake, with the store existing
to
serve campers and fisherman and income from town residents as a bonus.
Dallas, at 1400/km^2, is very densely populated for the area and even
there the stores are likely to be miles apart.

	Robert
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