Supermarkets - a benefit, a convenience or a curse?

The question is, can we really do anything about it?  The corner stores seemed to have shrivled up and died.  They were quite nice to be a short distance that a young'n could even walk up to.  Most everything now a days you have to drive to get there.  It's all in the money.  If you build it, they will come :P

Warm regards,

Frustrated

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france italy spain dont have our health associated weight problems and they still mostly shop daily at markets and shops . my bro lives in the south of france

and shops at the moment sell what they sell and do not intrude on others terroties they do have hyper markets but there out of town .and are not allowed to sell certain goods

they dont have a drink problem with there youngest there taught to drink sensiably 

and   they have 3 types of police force . and funny enough if your causing the problem your the one thats removed . if a manager of a shop calls the police because theres aproblem there in that shop as a quick as a flash and your out 

same as on the railaways any problems on the train and the police have you of no nicey nicey and everyone else has to suffer because some arse hole in being a pain you dont leave you are removed . 

unfortunatly though the youngesters want more of the american kind of life not the french traditonal way so i suppose we will see more fat french people as well befor long   

ask your self . before say 1980 how many fat children and adults did you know how many fat kids did you go to school with , in my class of 36 girls there was one girl you could call fat and one a bit chubby , that was 71/76 , now take a class of 36 and see how it adds up .  junk school dinner, junk food at home, 

we had great school dinners it was still canteen style but they were traditional food like stew with mash or boiled ,steak pie, sausage pie ,veg  salad, puddings  like jam sponge and custard , or choclate sponge and custard , rice pud , fruit .yogurt

yes you might be going god how unhealthy , but we were stuffed had no room for filling up with sweets and crisps from shop we brought mags ,and it kept us concentrating for the rest of the day, chips was once aweek and roast potaoes the same .

so my conclusion is when maggie said my food tec people say you can get as much goodness from a burger , and satrted with junk food dinners was a slippery slope , maggie was minster for education before priminster , she changed school dinners and reduced milk to infants only , 

now we have reaped what we have sowen ,and we cant go back .