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Numero Uno Market Shopper's Shuttle Service
Numero Uno Market Shopper's Shuttle Service
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The nine vans that operate from this location are providing complementary transportation services to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, boosting Numero Uno sales and profits, employing scores of people that might otherwise be unemployed and all at no expense to public taxpayers. ORIGIN OF THE PROGRAM The owner of Numero Uno Market some years ago recognized the difficulty for a majority of his transit dependent customers to buy and then carry their groceries home without their own automobile, very often with one or more children and at a cost and ease that could not be met by the public transit system.
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(1) Numero Uno Market is located at an intersection where two Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
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The Nonhero Uno market on Peterson is a very successful operation, principally due to its location and interaction with public transportation and its store to home van shuttle service. Key characteristics and facts on this store include: · It is one of the top five revenue supermarkets in all of Los Angeles, with a volume of $26 million a year.
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Total Passengers Per Day: Trips X Vans X Passengers Per Trip. Total Weekly Passengers: Combination of M-F (Fives times weekday total)
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5. Other residents of inner city areas of Los Angeles are beginning to benefit as other supermarket chains are replicating the service of Numero Uno.
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reliable public transportation for the shoppers to get to their respective stores. The MTA, though bombarded with charges of providing less than enough bus transportation services for residents in Los Angeles, does have a basic transportation system in inner city areas that benefits transit-dependent consumers and employees, and private sector businesses and corporations.
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2. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
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