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Me at the brand New Jersey City ShopRite after putting up with terrible urban grocery stores for years.

Seriously this place is amazing. I know suburban grocery stores have already been like this for like 15 years but having something like this in the middle of downtown and connected to the light rail is amazing.

Kind of incredible just much density and new development it takes to get a proper grocery store in an urban neighborhood. A dozen five-over-ones around a train station is not enough :-/

New Brunswick still cannot support a proper grocery store despite building probably thousands of units of new multifamily in the past 10-20 years.

I think the major difference between New Brunswick and similarly dense places in Europe is that in Germany or the UK, there would be a lot of people in dense, low-rise housing within a mile or so without cars, who would bike/walk/ride a bus into “downtown” New Brunswick to shop. Whereas in…

In Jersey City 40% of households don’t have vehicles vs 30% in New Brunswick. The gap isn’t as big as I would’ve thought.

I think that's exactly what happens, yes. And in Trenton too. Trenton does not have a full-service supermarket either.