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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When new grocery stores open in these food deserts, they typically cannot turn a profit and our frequent targets for theft. People don’t suddenly start buying and cooking vegetables from scratch just because there’s a grocery store nearby. Most poverty in America is a cultural issue rather than a simple lack of money.[/quote]
And your source for this conclusion?[/quote]

New Poster, come over to the poor counties on the eastern shore.  Go into any grocery store.  Look in the shopping carts.
It is obvious that grocery buying decisions are cultural.  Very few are buying bananas, rice, beans, potatoes and heads of cabbage (some of the cheapest foods in grocery stores.)

Carts are loaded with 2 liter sodas and processed food in packages.[/quote]

And this is why food stamps should be changed to be like WIC - the gov gives $ to help people eat. It shouldn’t be able to be spent on soda and chips. Let them spend their own money on that and food stamp $ on healthy food. [/quote]

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