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Not an American, so I may have incomplete information here, but I've read about "food deserts"[1] in US cities, i.e. neighborhoods (usually poor) where there ar
by xg15 3y ago
Not an American, so I may have incomplete information here, but I've read about "food deserts"[1] in US cities, i.e. neighborhoods (usually poor) where there are no grocery stores in reasonable distance and the only affordable source of food for poor families are fast food places.
That's a problem in itself but it may mean that the headline "fast-food prices rising" may not be as ridiculous as it sounds.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
- maxerickson 3y agoIt only really impacts people that don't own a vehicle, something like 10% of households. In urban areas, most housing is within a couple of miles of a real grocery store (so access with a vehicle is not an issue). In my relatively rural county, the food deserts are mostly outside of the towns, where people, for the most part anyway, are living there by choice (they want the outdoor space/distance from neighbors).
- inetknght 3y agoI live in (barely) rural part of Texas. There's a Dollar General I could walk to if I needed. But the nearest full size grocery store is 15 minutes away by car -- doing 60mph for most of the way. It'd be a 5 or 6 hour round-trip to walk -- maybe 2 hours to get there, maybe 15 minutes to shop, and 3 hours to walk back laden with groceries. Without the large volume that a vehicle could carry, that walk would need to occur quite often. With a car, I just stock up groceries about once every 4-6 weeks and it all fits in my trunk.