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I always wonder if another store would come in its place.
We were talking about wallmart today where we shared that when I lived 
in Denver I always thought wallmart was to far away for me to go shopping.
Now I go there at least once a week, either with uber or with the lady 
who helps us shop on Monday.
I wish them the best.

Original message:
> I saw this post from the Colorado Center for the Blind on Twitter, and
> thought you might find it interesting, not because the store is closing, but
> because of the attitudes toward the closure.  Sometimes our attitudes make
> all the difference in determining whether we face a problem or a possibility
> regarding life's occurrences, big or small.



> CCB Says "Farewell and Thanks!" to Walmart's Neighborhood Market

> March 23, 2017

> Written by Dan Burke

> a smiling woman with a cart full of groceries outside the store



> Lynne did her mini-meal shopping at the Walmart Neighborhood Market in early
> 2017. She planned, shopped, prepared and served for 15 people.



> Over the past six months or so, news that Walmart was closing a number of its
> Neighborhood Markets in the Denver Metro area resulted in a sigh of relief

> for us at the Colorado Center for the Blind. Each time, the store near our
> student apartments at S. Lowell Blvd and W. Bowles Ave. wasn't on the list.

> In January, another store closure was announced, this time on Sheridan. Whew!
> Close call!



> Our luck ran out though. Earlier this month we learned that the store where
> our students do most of their shopping would also fall under the axe, closing
> April 7.



> The first reaction naturally was shock and disbelief. Students won't be able
> to walk across the street to get their groceries anymore! That was also the

> response of citizens in the community, one of whom made several phone calls
> on our behalf. Some thought we should take it to the press, to the Mayor. We

> declined.



> That's because that first reaction lasted about five minutes. For some of the
> old hands, not much longer than a shrug. The thing is, it's been great for

> our students to have Walmart's Neighborhood Market just a few steps away for
> the past five years, but there were 24 years of CCB history before that when

> a supermarket wasn't just across the street, and there will be decades more
> after April 7. Our students and alums achieve their success on the basis of

> skills, confidence and the belief that they can live the lives they want, and
> that doesn't depend - can't depend - on the location of one grocery store.

> That will never change.



> "We're teaching our students to live in the real world," says Executive
> Director Julie Deden. "This is the real world."



> A grocery store closing like this can be a blow to a neighborhood, of course.
> Everyone in the area who relied on the store will have to adjust. There are

> other options open to us that are available via RTD - choices that were there
> before Walmart opened. Like all the rest of the Neighborhood Market shoppers,

> we'll figure out the alternatives and move on. It will be all right. That's
> what we teach, and that's why our tag line is "Take Charge with Confidence

> and Self-reliance". This is a real-world lesson in putting that tag line into
> practice.



> When the Colorado Center for the Blind was forced in 2012 by reductions in
> RTD services at its former location at Mineral and Platte Canyon to find new

> housing for our students, it was just a happy coincidence that Walmart was
> building one of its first Neighborhood Markets across the street on the site

> of an old Albertson's. But that wasn't why we chose the apartments now known
> as the McGeorge Mountain Terrace. It was a bonus, but not a deal-maker. In

> fact, our students had done fine down south for years without a supermarket
> across the road. It was the loss of convenient transportation to get to the

> stores or anywhere else that forced the move.



> The National Federation of the Blind of Colorado

>  protested vigorously at the loss of RTD service, but this isn't like that
> situation. It might make sense to protest to a public entity like RTD for
> cutting

> service, it doesn't make the same kind of sense to protest to keep a grocery
> store open that isn't economically viable for the corporation, and especially

> not when there are reasonable options still available. Certainly, though our
> students have done the vast majority of their shopping at the Neighborhood

> Market, other people have to shop there too. We wouldn't expect the store to
> remain open at a loss just to serve blind people.



> Thanks Walmart!



> In the past five years Walmart has truly been a neighbor and a partner,
> donating five shopping carts at their opening for the use of our students,
> cash for various fund-raisers, and especially providing gracious shopping
> assistance and service to our students. This week, a couple of the store's
> employees stopped by to talk with Center staff about the possible fallout for
> our students. We appreciate that kind of concern from our neighbors. And we
> send it right back - we wish all the employees of the Neighborhood Market on
> W. Bowles Ave. who will be displaced by the closure all the best. Where are
> they going?

> Talk about real-world!



> Joy Breslauer, President

> National Federation of the Blind of Montana

> Web Site:  <http://www.nfbofmt.org/> http://www.nfbofmt.org



> Live the life you want



> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
> expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
> between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
> blindness is not what holds you back.

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