eli5: Food deserts

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I feel like I understand that it’s a logistical creation. I also get that there were potentially reasons for their existence in the past, but with ostensibly world-wide 2-3 day delivery on anything, how can they exist? I grew up in an island state that didn’t produce anything and yet we received all types of fresh produce and international products, and yet in the middle of first world western countries there is a lack of access to the same things?

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It’s not about whether or not stores would be able to supply produce. It’s a matter of whether people want to open a business in a neighborhood with lots of crime where people don’t make much money.

The problem is the concentration of poverty in an area and the feedback loop that creates by causing businesses to flee the area, rather than an inability for the business to exist.

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