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> No more $2k cars that'll semi-reliably get you … to the 50-miles-away grocery store or Wal-Mart for your "big shopping" once every couple weeks, for the rural
by ochoseis 4y ago
> No more $2k cars that'll semi-reliably get you … to the 50-miles-away grocery store or Wal-Mart for your "big shopping" once every couple weeks, for the rural poor.
Recently I saw a video on YouTube about an impoverished depopulated Eastern European town where instead of having a fixed local grocery store, there was a truck that visited weekly. On the one hand, it’s sad to think of people being so remote yet dependent, but on the other it actually seems like an innovative solution to the problem.
https://youtu.be/q37qWA2cL5w?t=7m5s https://youtu.be/q37qWA2cL5w?t=7m5s