The E Market St. Giant has essentially become the "inner city grocery store" and it will only become that all the more come next year when the West York Giant closes.   Giant used to have a store on Mt. Rose Ave just outside the City line.  

The main reason for both Giant stores' closing  is excessive loss through retail theft (shoplifting).

That, by the way, is the same reason why no grocery retailer has lasted more than a couple of years in the "Yorktowne Mall" across from the State Welfare office on N. Duke St.

I have noticed both good things and bad things about grocery stores in general. 

Good: The produce sections and fish sections seem better than ever.

Bad: there has been a proliferation of prepared meals rather than raw ingredients in stores. In my grocery store after they renovated the frozen section, it became a monumental task to find things like peas or frozen corn amongst all of the complete frozen meals.
I guess that fits americans taste for convenience. However, I note that people pay a premium price for the same calories they could cook into better dishes with some effort.

flowergirl wrote:

I tend to stay away from those prepared foods for several reasons: way too much salt; usually not tasty as their package photos show; usually overpriced for small weight of contents and there is often ingredients in them there I chose to not consume.  I do occasionally buy Giant's prepared in-store deli salads and I especially love their broccoli salad but now even that has become pricey.  I tend to make my  own most of the time.

You raise several excellent points here. Thanks.
Perhaps most important of all is the huge amount of salt in processed food.
Hypertensives beware!