Well the reason they are in a food desert is because of the chronic shoplifting and occasional looting of the stores. If they address that issue plenty of vendors will come back.
Its not enough to get free food now they want it delivered.
The grocery chain HEB in uber lib Austin, TX so very concerned with food deserts that they’re going to build a store in the middle of one. Of course, it’ll take a year or so before the store will open so they’re working with farmers markets, donations and such so HEB can set up tents with food. Cue the choir with “Kumbayah” and keep Austin weird.
Excuse me, but HEB is the only game in town where we live so they’re screwing us every which way they can. In Austin, they have nice stores, clean, bright lights, a large variety of items and brands, decent meats and produce. Here? Ha! We get “fresh” bread that’s frozen, old nasty produce that other stores refuse and very few brand choices. The meat dept. is c r a p. Aside from ground beef, there may be 5 ft. of space for beef so the cuts are limited. On top of that, they will only put out 4 packages of each cut which means the person ahead of you just bought it out. Most of the time, there’s no milk or you’ll have someone begging you to give them one of your two gallons. You take your VERY basic grocery list and come home with a fourth of what you went for. Half the items in the weekly circular are never ordered and they don’t accept coupons.
But, hey, instead of giving their regular customers decent produce, they’re getting fresh from the farm produce for “food deserts” in tents. There are food deserts because of theft. Tents. Theft. Hmm, what could possibly go wrong? And they’ll be sure to pass the losses to me.