What is a food desert and what causes one?
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It’s areas that are usually low income and high crime.
Because of high crime and low income normal grocery stores cannot function there. It be like opening an apple store dead center of a ghetto. You will get no sales but get robbed.
With no profit for grocery stores you get fast food and higher profit margin places.
So McDonald’s will make profit and be able to function and you will have corner stores that sell basics like milk but they mark their products up more than a normal grocery store.
Basically this causes the low income area with lots of crime to pay extra for unhealthy food. And it’s hard to fix without major changes to an area.
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