Approximately 4,500 people in Greater Fulton live with limited supermarket access. These families rely on understocked convenience stores or take long trips to buy healthy food. To get from Greater Fulton to the closest grocery store without access to a vehicle, one must walk along Williamsburg Road – a treacherous and unsafe journey. Taking the bus is no better as it takes an hour and a half one way to arrive at the store.
Every community in Richmond deserves access to healthy food. Until that happens, food access will remain an uphill challenge for the residents of Greater Fulton and other neighborhoods.
On a similar note, Michael Hild at Dogtown Dish today put out the call for a grocery store for Manchester.
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I agree that Fulton needs a grocery store, and I would love to see an Aldi there.
What a very neat surprise to see your Instagram picture of Grubbs Duper Market. That was my father’s store for 50 years! Such a great memory!
So neat to see my dad’s grocery store posted on Instagram. Many many wonderful memories of that place!
Barbara
@barbara Did you see the other photos here? 🙂 https://chpn.net/2015/11/10/grubbs-super-market-1980/
If anyone in Fulton knows of a site nearby, here are the criteria that Aldi want met: https://corporate.aldi.us/en/real-estate/real-estate-opportunities/
Barbara I loved seeing the photo too, I shopped there a lot back in the day. Your dad was a great guy!
crd, thank you, I really miss him, but loved working there and the business he built. He had such wonderful customers!
John, yes I did. The other pic is Tommy Powell who like others, worked for my dad 30+ years. He closed the store in 1989 when the City took over the property. I think back and would loved to have continued the biz with my family. It is so wonderful to see the area growing again especially with Stone Brewery now and Rockets Landing.
I wish CSX would give up some of its land for commercial development.