Our grocery store closed last year. We do have a Dollar General with some fresh produce but. We need to travel 13mi east and 14 mi west to get to a Grocery store.
In Dayton, a neighborhood raised funds by selling memberships and with government grants to open a co-op. One of the managers blamed their food desert on apartheid.. That’s their fantasy
YOYO.
We moved here 10 years ago. Our closest grocery store has always been 12 miles away. It’s not an issue. The problem with urban areas is your served by a lot of mom and pop stores. All of them have to charge a lot more money. That’s just the way it is. If you want to live in a place we’re large grocery stores service the community, it means our community is going to be spread out over more than a block or two. That means you need a car.
The way I seen it since the sixties is this: you can live in an urban neighborhood where your groceries are purchased at small, expensive stores. Or you can live in a sub Urban or rule area where your groceries are purchased at large and less expensive stores. I don’t see anything different here except that in some areas nobody can afford to do business because the neighborhood is populated by thieves.