> These fast delivery stores are not serving an actual need in these places.

Who are you to tell anyone what they need? If there's a consumer demand for it, and companies willng and able to serve that market, you're free to use them or not. But you don't get to determine how and where people get their groceries, that's none of your business.

I realize that in some Dutch cities the council is long used to shaping infrastructure in order to force things, but call that what it is: forceful local government shaping cities according to some guiding principle.

That is very far removed from dismissing dissenting opinions to the point of there being "no need" for them.

(sorry for the rant, just very pissed off with this far-left assumption of always being right, and presenting opinions as obvious fact)