Well fresh food and Wal-Mart is not something I’d expect to see mentioned in the same sentence. Wonder how many of these companies made donations to her husband’s campaign in exchange for the publicity...
don’t worry, these Wal-Marts will soon close because of enormous losses...
The whole “food desert” thing is so dumb. There’s a reason there aren’t grocery stores there, if it was a good place for them they’d be there, make it a good place for them and they’ll show up.
Isn’t it great to be poor.. you get to be a contempt-ed tool used for government coercion. And there’s always some little totalitarian looser willing to take up your ‘cause’.
Walmart did this in Indianapolis. They opened Walmart grocery stores in poor communities.
Almost all are gone because most of the time the food never made it to the shelves. If it did, it was stolen.
Walmart now has empty buildings sitting around with graffiti on all over them.
Many years ago Cub Foods got lured into the same thing. Had the same problem and those stores are gone along with the rest of the stores.
Perhaps Moochelle could start an honesty program and teach those peeps in those communities to stop thieving from those trying to solve their food desert problem.
A friend just showed me an article in the Washington, DC “City Paper” about Walmart. Four new stores are planned incide DC, which for years has been known as haveing “food desert” areas. Of course it doesn’t help that years ago the city passed laws against unlicensed street vending and made licenses expensive and hard to get. There used to be farm trucks loaded with fresh produce traveling around the city and especially in the poorer areas. There was one white farm couple that stopped their truck near where I worked. I bought their lovely ripe tomatoes and corn regularly. They were run off by these vending law changes.
One effort that DC has made according to the article, is to require that Walmart pay at least $4 above minimum wage.
I live in a town that is considered a “food desert”. The nearest Wal-Mart is 4 miles away, and there are Wal-Marts every 10 miles or so from all the other stores in this part of the state. My town has a few “Mom and Pop” markets, a Subway, a Rite Aid that sells food, and 2 convenience stores. Taxes and crime are high in this area. I can’t imagine who would want to open a big grocery store here.
I still say that food stamp recipients should be able to buy only produce, lean meat, dairy, and whole grains.
Also, is it time to sell my Walmart stock?
Grocery chains will put a store anywhere it will earn a profit.
Exactly why would they put stores in areas where the store was guaranteed to lose money?
Instead of shaming good companies into bad investments, Moochelle would be much better served by pointing her Wookie finger at the Hombeboys who caused the situation.
Wow. So now these communities will have more places to rob!!
Tuskegee is a “food desert” because Wal-Mart was forced to close their store there in the 1980s.
Why?
Because employees were stealing from the store, the city government was ripping off the store, the patrons were engaged in rampant shoplifting.
True story. That’s why Tuskegee is a “food desert.” It is one of the few places in America where Wal-Mart went out of business.
Here’s a revolutionary idea: if these cities like Tuskegee and Detroit didn’t have so much crime, they wouldn’t be “food deserts.”
Hard to believe, I know.
These people are idiots.
Create a strawman meme and fit a false story to it.
Do the poor have access to groceries where YOU live? They sure do here.
a local south bay Walmart finally got an OK to supersize its grocery ops.. the local target has already been selling pretty much full blown groceries for awhile.. prices are competitive on a lot of items..
not much ya can do about hate.. ,, ignore, deplore it
Job 1. ;-)
If the liberals have their way they’ll just raise the prices elsewhere to make up for the loss from theft.
The moral is: never fall in love with a politician. They will break your heart everytime.
I think the so-called progressives and wanna-be progressives are starting to realize this.
This is so ridiculous! If those stores that used to be in the ‘food deserts’ hadn’t been forced out due to high rates of theft, they’d still be there.
Wal-Mart and any other store that goes in there will likely be forced out for the same reasons. What a waste of money!
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.
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.