This week, small-time dead tree media published an optimistic examination of a local effort despite the fact that the myth of the "food desert" has been repeatedly challenged. Here's the "alt." newspaper buying into progressive ideology that might not solve the root problem of education, poverty and the salty sweet goodness of junk food that turns even the American middle-class into pudgy diabetics. Call it a lunch link: Rollin' Grocer drives into food deserts
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Take some of those pots you are growing your weed in and grow some green beans. Problems solved.
ReplyDeleteUmmmmm, dessert.
ReplyDeleteThe reason there are "food deserts" is that:
ReplyDelete1. Much of the resident population has moved away due to crime.
2. No private investor in their right mind would put a dime into a business in that part of town.
3. No one in their right mind would work in a retail business in that part of town.
4. The liability insurance and other security costs would blow any retail outlet away.
A necessary first step to get grocery stores and pretty much anything else back into that part of town is to focus on reducing crime, violence, and murders.
Which, working together, the residents and police can at least try to do.
The next story about these mobile grocery folks will include a photo of their truck up on blocks and all their groceries mysteriously disappeared.
First things first.
^^^ you forgot disposable income. Stores make their money off of stuff that isn't staple items, it's hard to much money on Always Save Mac and cheese.
ReplyDelete∆∆∆ you think poor people on food stamps only buy staple items? So why do they sell there food stamps for pennies on the dollar for cash? Why do they buy red hot Cheetos all the time? Give me a break!
ReplyDeleteAttention all feel-gooders, the food desert is an urban legend. It doesn't exist anywhere in America. Also, the poor are diabetic fat fucks because a pack of cupcakes is 75 cents, and an apple $2. Spend as much as you want to build as many grocery stores and mobile food trucks as will fit in KC and the poor will still be eating the cupcakes for dinner.
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