Link of possible interest

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synecdochic has an interesting post on how people in Manhattan shop for food and other necessities that is aimed at Avengers fandom, but is probably quite useful to those of you who write White Collar and other NYC-based fandoms as well! Er, those of you who don't already live there, you know.

(As a lifelong resident of tiny to medium-sized American towns, I find big cities disconcerting to shop in, precisely because of the issue synecdochic talks about -- the lack of the sort of one-stop-shopping centers where most American suburbanites and small-town residents are used to buying EVERYTHING. It is definitely a different shopping culture!)