Living in the Scoot Utopia

Learning today that a chocolate shop is opening in the old River City Books location, it got me thinking about other things I wish I could buy without having to leave my immediate neighborhood:

• Yesterday I bought everything I needed to make a salad in the City Market. But when it came to a hunt for croutons, I was SOL. Many of the shops sell everything you need to make a salad, but none of them sell anything to put on top of a salad.
• In a pinch I can get eggs, milk, and butter from Chinatown or from a combination of al-Habashi and KC Seafood & Meat. But no one carries more than a bare minimum assortment of cheese. A cheese shop would fit in nicely.
• Lots of places sell seafood, but none sell fresh fish that's already cut into filets or fresh shrimp that's already beheaded, delegged, and deshelled. I'd buy a lot more seafood locally if the hard/disgusting work was already done for me.
• None of the stores, at least none open after work (Discounts Unilimited, I'm talking about you) carries basic paper products or laundry detergent. Chinatown, you're open late, you'd do well to add these things.
• There should be an informal restaurant that sells fried chicken or seafood.
• The Cup and Saucer must be the only place with a coffee shop downtown that waits until 7am to open. I have walked by its darkened doors numerous times on my way to work and had to get coffee inside the loop at shops that open at 6am.
• A year-round full service bakery would be awesome.

Dat is all.