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.
Perhaps this will be different with the 4 Walmart stores they plan to open in Washington, DC. Several years ago I went to a newly opened Home Depot. The hardware and tools section was in an especially enclosed single access, supervised entrance area. Going back a few years later, the same area is now just as open as the other store areas. Another thing I have seen in statistics is that property and other crime levels have dropped in major cities. 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?
Those familiar with the Washington, DC area may know the story of Landover Mall, and why that mall went out of business.
When it opened, Landover Mall was a beautiful shopping mall. The area at the time was middle class though racially mixed. As time went on, the black population increased sharply, especially among poorer blacks. Gangs started congregating at the mall and caused trouble sometimes. Graffiti and other evidence of gang presence, such as ripped up seats in the movie theaters there, created a bad atmosphere.
The bad atmosphere frightened shoppers away, which caused sales to drop, which caused some stores to close, which turned more shoppers away. And the packs of youths, menacing legitimate shoppers, scared even more people away. There were gang fights and some other crimes there, which scared off even more.
Eventually the mall was torn down.