Well maybe if Casey Thomas’ constituents didn’t steal everything in sight there wouldn’t be a food desert.
A while back listening to a local radio guy in Augusta talking to “community leader”, who was complaining that Publix created a food desert, after closing a store, in one area of the city. Radio guy brings up the point that they closed because the amount of shoplifting made it impossible for the store to function. The response was just……equity, fairness, racism, capitalism, equity, blah blah blah blah
Of course the same community leader was championing his new “youth leadership” program that was only open to black kids.
...usually followed by ‘is it fair to put people in jail who are just hungry?’ Decriminalization of shoplifting in California has absolutely changed the marketplace landscape. And it isn’t just food markets which are pulling up stakes and investing elsewhere.