Good question...does the wrapping on the sandwiches in your part of town look anything like this?
Posted on 07/20/2011 4:16:49 PM PDT by SmithL
U r right. In a poor area of Nashville, a certain fast food restaurant has been selling big macs. ..... Er um large sandwiches for $1 forever. But where I live, the sandwich is $3. We subsidize sandwiches across town. Wonder if chewbacca had anything to do wif it.
The reason there are no supermarkets in these “poor areas” is because the good folks who live in the area rob the stores blind on a daily basis. I worked for years in the supermarket business. FYI...there still no supermarkets in Atlantic City.
Are you sure those restaurants are owned by the same franchisee?
Lol
I hope WALMART loses it;s SHIRT!!!!!!
Watch those communities rob and trash them in a month or less. There's a real good reason why they don't build in those neighborhoods. It has nothing to do with "access to fresh food". She just refuses to see the handwriting on the wall.
It’s not just the grocery stores either. I was visiting a community where they had to close a ‘Staples’....they went thru five managers trying to get a handle on the thefts. Ended up they were stealing items as they came in the docking doors as well. They closed it down completely.
...announced that several large grocery chains, including Walmart, will add 1,500 new grocery stores over the next five years in poor communities that lack access to fresh foods.If the shoppers wanted fresh foods, they wouldn't buy bags of chips, carbonated bevs, bags of candy and chocolate, cheap generic canned goods...
>>Could it be because black are proud that one of their guys made it to the Presidency and are less angry and committing fewer crimes?<<
No, now we give them every damn thing they could want.There’s no reason to steal unless you;re a dope addict.
That reminds me- Many years ago, when I lived in a small city in MD, (we didn’t live far from Wash. DC, maybe a half-hour or less)they had something I haven’t seen anywhere before or since! It was a sort of “store bus”. It was a bus that went through the neighborhoods and the driver would honk his horn and people would come to the ‘bus stop’, then he/she would go on to another stop, just like a bus you ride on. All of the kids in the neighborhoods would call it the “Beeper Bus”!
It was like a cross between an ice-cream truck and a book-mobile. The only thing different about it was that it carried groceries like a small rolling grocery store! It had shelves w/canned goods and bread and soda pop. It may have had a freezer case and a refrigerator for meat(I really can’t remember that for sure), it had small amounts of all sorts of stuff- soup and ketchup/mustard/mayo., cereal, coffee, drink mixes, candy, etc.. It also may have had some fresh produce, but that I can’t remember either.
I remember when the kids would sit and wait for it, then bring money and glass pop bottles to trade for candy! Parents and others would get on it and buy things when they couldn’t get to the store for some reason. In those days, they didn’t always have 1 car let alone 2 or three! I guess most people had at least 1 vehicle, depending on income.
The bus driver had a cash register, and would take the money just like a ice-cream truck! Like I said, I haven’t seen anything like it since, anywhere! It would be a handy thing to have for poor neighborhoods now. That is-if it wouldn’t get robbed!
I like the idea, but in DC the regulatory climate is such that it would be very hard to get it approved. We had something like that at a camp site in up state NY years ago when I went camping with my family.
“The bus driver had a cash register, and would take the money just like a ice-cream truck! Like I said, I haven’t seen anything like it since, anywhere!”
Schwans comes to mind...home delivery...frozen foods...they may even come to a neighborhood near you :)
As someone who spends half their life in a food desert with plenty of rainfall, I thought this might be on topic. I suspect lots on the list spend more than half in the desert. My experience, the WalMarts 18 and 30 miles away, out of the desert, many of the fat people spent too much on ice cream and processed food. It's not a distance thing. I left out beer cause you can't really spend too much on beer.
In case anyone's interested, there is not ONE shopping mall in the city of Detrot......They're all in the surrounding suburbs so I don't expect a WalMart to be built there any time soon..........
I agree with you beer comment!
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