You could ask grocery stores why they don't locate in food deserts. I don't think you'd like the answers. When I lived in Oakland, CA the local journalist fro

You could ask grocery stores why they don't locate in food deserts. I don't think you'd like the answers. When I lived in Oakland, CA the local journalist from the local public access tv station news show interviewed a closing supermarket owner. The two reasons he gave were "shrink" and lots of slip and fall lawsuits. This is not the bright sunny news anyone wants to hear.