Posted on 11/19/2019 7:54:20 AM PST by dynachrome
At 81, Evelyn Robinson finds trips to the grocery store tiring and inconvenient. She either faces a long bus ride from her Cherry Hill neighborhood to the Shoppers Food several miles away, or else finds a grandkid or fellow church member willing to drive her. She’ll often slip that person $20 for their time.
Many in Robinson’s South Baltimore community live in what’s considered a food desert, a place without easy access to a supermarket, and where few people have cars.
Through a new partnership with Lyft, Baltimore officials are hoping to make it easier and cheaper to connect people in low-income neighborhoods with healthy food.
Starting Monday, people in areas of South and West Baltimore can register online with the ride-share company and get subsidized trips to participating grocery stores. Up to 200 people can participate in the pilot program, which will provide one-way rides for $2.50 each. Each rider can take up to eight such trips per month through April.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Actual title: “Baltimore residents who live in food deserts can now take a subsidized Lyft ride to grocery store”
Altered to fit.
Correct me if I’m wrong - but don’t food deserts exist primarily because of the behavior issues of many people living in those areas and that most grocery stores don’t wanna have to deal with shoplifting, thuggery and a general ‘hood attitude from those people...?
They burned down their neighborhood grocery stores during the Freddie Gray riots.
had to find an 81 year old to make the story work.
hmmm...http://www.baltimoregrocerydelivery.com/HowTo.html
I would offer the service to senior-citizens, but that’s it.
Yada yada yada. The nearest grocery store to me is just up the hill from the almost-ghetto of northeast Baltimore. I do most of the shopping there because it is real cheap and we have learned to eat darn well with the limited selections. I am one of the few whites who shop there and one of the rare customers who does not pay with an EBT card. I have to tell you that a majority of the black patrons range from overweight to morbidly obese and they fill their carts with the junkiest crap imaginable. You can transport them to health food Nirvana but they will still buy the same old crap.
The Lyft Driver better be armed and the vehicle fully insured. There are specific reasons why “Food Deserts” exist.
Mostly due to shoplifters and rabble-rousers who don’t want to pay.
Food deserts cause by shoplifting and destruction of merchandise.
self created food deserts.
Food deserts!!! I love it. Funny how there’s no liquor store deserts or smoke shop deserts or lottery deserts.
I strongly suspect these “food deserts” (never heard that term before) didn’t used to be. I imagine data tracking the pilfering rate probably exceeded acceptable limits for a sustained period in these areas and the grocery stores packed it in to cut losses....and who can blame them?
There are no food stores because food walks out the door and the stores lose money. I’m sure the dems have an answer for this. Like fining food chains which do not open stores in high crime areas where the employees will be robbed, beaten or worse.
You don't see a lot of book stores, or work boots stores there neither, but nobody seems to complain about that.
Incoming wave of assaults and carjackings on Lyft drivers.
“A food desert”?
We were in the third day of our expedition across the vast Baltimore food desert when Smithers, the coward that he is, started crying and begging to return to our base camp.
“This place is as barren as Venezuela!” he cried.
So I shot him and threw his carcass to the vultures.
Yes, what you say is true. However, discussions of this subject tend to avoid the reasons why the major supermarket chains avoid locating in certain neighborhoods. We are supposed to have a certain sympathy for the people in those areas, without regard to why they don’t have supermarkets.
I think Michelle Obama weighed in on food deserts at one time?
"Have you ever noticed how fat people who live in food deserts are?"
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