Davis
Nerudite: I don't really follow Davis THAT closely, so maybe I'm wrong.
I actually agree to a certain extent with the philosophy behind it. The town where I live, Vacaville, is still suffering five years later from a glut of smaller supermarkets shutting down-killing the surrounding commercial centers. The market trend seems to be towards larger and larger centers. I wonder when the WalMart Supercenter will arrive in Solano County? (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse).
All that I remember is that one of the smaller neighborhood supermarkets shut down this year (I believe it was an Albertsons), Safeway has built a huge Marketplace in South Davis (although, being in a residential neighborhood, it still serves that neighborhood need), and I read that Albertsons was planning to pull out of Davis a couple of years ago because of the restrictions, which I understand have been somewhat relaxed.