well, you cater for whoever you want to live in the area. What I am wondering about is how Tesco and Sainsbury's have divided Brixton, with the North seemingly becoming a Tesco garrison and the South Sainsbury's controlled (bar the occasional exception), what like East coast West coast, gaza/gully,
No - supermarkets identify sites they deem to be "market opportunitites" (i.e. no other supermarket within 5 or 10 mins walk, empty shops/old pubs available, disposable income in the area etc...) and open them up.
Tesco and Sainsburys have been "opening them up one after the other" regularly in the Brixton area for about 10 years now, it's not a recent phenomenon. It's part of the supermarkets' strategy - once they'd ravaged the high streets by moving all the big stores out of town, from the early 2000's they've moved back into the desolated high streets in order to take over the corner shop/grocery market with their 'local'/'metro' stores.
You don't have to shop there. Personally I don't shop in any supermarkets - I find it's much more interesting (and often cheaper) to find your food elsewhere.
The street fruit and veg market has managed to survive despite being right next to a big Iceland supermarket, a Sainsburys, a M&S food hall and with Tesco just up the hill, so I don't see it disappearing any time soon. In fact, it's been growing recently with the arrival of the Sunday Farmers market.
You seem to be describing a different street market to the one I frequent. I've never seen a carrot cake stall on Electric Avenue and the Farmers Market sells all sort of stuff including flowers, fruit and veg, bread, meat, cheese etc., as well as some cakes.
I don't believe your vision of a carrot cake future for the street market is likely to arrive any time soon.
I think you're confusing the carrot cake bit of the market (Granville Arcade/"brixton village") with the street market on Electric Avenue.
Markets always sell to their customer base and Brixton thrived by adapting and selling cowfoot and salt pork to people of Caribbean heritage. That's made Brixton what it is, but it never was and never will be static. People cross London to buy salt pork here, and as long as there's a demand, the market will continue to supply them. Brixton is much less monocultural than it was - there many more people (and businesses) with Latin American, Middle Eastern and African heritage, as well as the shops selling latte and carrot cake (do they still sell it at the Ritzy btw?).
I'm not sure the whole carrot cake metaphor is a good one at all.If I remember both the Ritzy and Brixton Wholefoods sold it from their very beginnings.(the name Spacey Tracy pops into my head for some reason)
Yeah it's not loltastic but I like the artwork and he's chosen some interesting London topics.
I am not confusing the markets, just made an assumption that at this rate of gentrification/change, the fruit/veg/meat bit of the market (Carribean/Chinese/British etc, other than 'Farmer's Market') be it inside or outside (there is still inside market of fruit/veg left mind you) will be slowly but surely replaced by cake/deli/up-market foods, rather then selling what the market once was famed for. Purely because the clientele is changing. And I think that is a shame, but seems inevitable, especially after reading a lot of the posts today
True, but the customer base that is coming will determine a lot more than that, like Ladbroke Grove.
So long as the street market provides a cheaper, faster and friendlier way of picking up fruit and veg than the supermarkets, I really can't see Electric Avenue turning into a fancy cup cake emporium any time soon.
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This had totally passed me by. Wasn't aware of there being an application or anything. 
So... there was talk of Tesco taking over the ex-Crown (as per this thread) and I hadn't heard any more about it in the meantime, but I've just walked past the site next to what used to be the Junction (and many other names previously I'm sure - ie. on Coldharbour Lane just after you pass under the railway bridge if you're arriving in LJ from the Brixton direction) and there is hoarding up there announcing the arrival of a Tesco Express.
To rub salt in the wound the hoardings are covered with slogans such as "making a difference in the community" or suchlike and a freephone number for "feedback" or suggestions.
Yeah, see your point, but when you could be sandwiched between two kebab shops, or a tesco and a TKMaxx with no comeback, it didn't seem like a risk worth taking. (plus IMAGINE the state of those carpets)
