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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One complaint is that not all urban dwellers have easy access to supermarkets and instead have to rely on nearby convenients.

That's where I'm annoyed and frustrated.  Japan for example has amazing convenience stores like Lawson or their 7-11s which offer a whole range of pre-made food items that are good, cheap, and fresh-made for convenience.

Why can't we manage to do that here in the US?  That's where I'd agree with the OP.  A lot of American food is mass-produced, mass-market slop with low-quality ingredients, packed full of preservatives and made to ship across the country and sit on shelves for far too long, as if we're still living in the 1940s with ration cards.

I would absolutely love it for Japanese 7-11 to take over American convenience stores and put their model in place here.[/quote]

I'll tell you why we can't.  Good, cheap and fresh-made as a combination really doesn't sell.

Typical Americans are all talk and no hat.

There was a restaurant in Florida called Sweet Tomatoes.  It was basically an endless salad bar with soup and a flat fee.  It went out of business in a few years.  Same with other similar places.

Bolthouse Farms had a juice that was mostly vegetables, kale, celery, cucumber, etc.  It's gone.  It didn't sell.  It's on their website, but you can't find it anywhere.

Americans talk about "healthy eating", but very few are committed long-term and don't want to pay the price long term.   You may think they don't like mass-market slop, but they'll go back to it after a few weeks.  They want greasy, savory and sweet.

You may want a Lawsons or FreshMart and others would too, but can you see Americans stuffing their face with Onigiri and Green Tea long term?  I'm just not seeing it.  It's would be a fad based on guilt, here.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.[/quote]

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