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Originally Posted by jorgelito
JJ, there are some places 9neighborhoods) that don't have grocery stores period. Hence, no produce.
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Originally Posted by abaya
Quite true--West and North Philly are two places that I know of (from personal experience--measuring this exact phenomenon on a study of fresh produce availability in low-income Philadelphia) that are produce deserts, basically. The only fresh food I saw in those 100 or so grocery stores that I surveyed were onions, potatoes, and (usually old) tomatoes. And those were the "good" stores.
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I stand corrected on that. I guess that brings me to the next step of my thought process...why isn't there access to fresh produce in these areas? Is it because grocery stores are absent altogether from those neighborhoods or because they are there, but just don't carry those items? And if it's the latter, why don't they carry fresh produce?
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it.