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CaliforniaPeggy

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2. It's good that this topic is getting some much-needed attention...

Reply to WCGreen (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2013, 12:19 PM

Mar 2013

I'm hazy on this, but it seems to me that in Los Angeles, the major grocery chains are being encouraged to open up in the poorer areas, thus bringing the produce they desperately need to those people.

And I've read that the big grocers are doing just that.

K&R

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A place at the Table... [View all] WCGreen Mar 2013 OP

Food Access Research Atlas (USDA Econ Reseach Service) - pinto Mar 2013 #1

It's good that this topic is getting some much-needed attention... CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2013 #2

There is a independent chain of stores that have located in some of the urban WCGreen Mar 2013 #3

K&R nt redqueen Mar 2013 #4