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>In Mammoth Lakes, there are two old K-Mart lots that could easily welcome competitive grocery stores

This sounds like Bishop, not Mammoth. Bishop is 30 minutes outside of Mammoth and is a little bit bigger. Mammoth does have two grocery stores now, for years it was just a Vons and now there is a Grocery Outlet as well.

Bishop has a Vons, Grocery Outlet, and a Smart and Final. Both cities have some hispanic grocers that I'm not familiar with. As far as I know though there has never been a K-Mart in Mammoth, and I've snowboarded there since ~2002.

Bishop did used to have a K-Mart and it is just sitting empty now.

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In the same paragraph:

> Vons started leasing one plot in 2019 when K-Mart went under, “holding the space hostage.” It now leases the other as well.

Bozeman MT also has a huge lot being completely unused because it was a former K-Mart. And Bozeman is growing like nuts, I can't imagine there's nobody who wants the space.

Yeah it's definitely Mammoth. Mammoth Lakes, like many ski towns, has SF-level housing crisis.

Edit: Oops I mean Bishop. I'm too sleepy. The article is weird and mixing up the towns and their separate but related issues. I lived in the Bishop/Mammoth corridor for 2 winters.

Mammoth has never had a K-Mart. If you click through the links in the article you will see that they are about Bishop. The author of the article doesn't understand that these are different towns 40 minutes apart.

> Both cities have some hispanic grocers

One thing I have noticed after moving to the US is that white Americans are terrified of going to ethnic grocers, it's pretty fascinating

Uhh . . . speak for yourself? I use them all the time if they have things I need.

I find your racial stereotype inaccurate and offensive.

never seen that. Lots of variety of grocery stores in SoCal, large variety of people in them. (hate the word "ethnic" though as it's "othering").

Maybe I live in a bubble (Southern California), but as far as I know none of my friends have any kinda trouble visiting any sort of grocery stores, Mexican, Indian, Middle Eastern, East Asian, etc. Where is this idea of yours coming from?

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