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Originally Posted by thumper
well for us it was because of the price of parking going up and up, the crackheads who harass you for change, and all the good shops started to move out or close down. now it's mostly cheap chinese kitchenware or low-grade herbal medicine shops  |
I'm sure some people stopped going because of the cost of parking, but then again a lot of people use to bus it to chinatown. Overall, it's the fact that you do not need to go to chinatown to get the same things. The people who bus it to chinatown can just walk down the street and go to their nearby store and buy most of what they need. Even Save on and Superstore carries chinese veggies and other asian items like Hon's noodles.
For the people who drive, they can drive to Richmond and have dim sum before they go grovery shopping. And like you said, parking is free.
Because of the declining business, some shops couldn't keep up and closed, but some stores like Loks and Carley's and Sunrise are very busy. Other stores like Chinatown supermarket has enough business to stay open.
Heck, before you had to go to Chinatown to buy chinese buns, now T&T, Pine House, and other chinese bakeries make getting chinese buns easy.