Where to turn in a food desert
Getting groceries will become more difficult for some families in Edmondson Village. Giant foods in the Edmondson Square Shopping Center is closing June 13th.
“It's bad, it's bad. In our neighborhoods, in our black neighborhoods they’re taking resources that people need. I mean a market, a Giant at that. We didn’t hear about anything being replaced. How many chicken box stores can you have. They don’t fill prescriptions. We don’t have local pharmacies in the neighborhood like we used to,” said Andeidra Bell Bunch, a Baltimore city resident.
Bunch is the owner of Cupsey Cakesy. She's working with Borden Transportation to offer a free shuttle service to transport people to the nearest supermarket.
"This is a labor of love because this is my community. I grew up here. This impacts me and my family, my parents are older. This is a walking neighborhood, there’s a lot of elderly people who no longer drive,” says Bunch.
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"Inventory shrinkage" is, I believe, the common phrase for the problem, and grocery store desertion of inner city neighborhoods is happening all over the USA.
State, county, and local government should try to subsidize these stores to help keep them open. All they do is bad mouth the corporations saying their racist or to greedy. Kudos to the woman offering free transportation. Awesome!
@1972Ray
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You want taxpayers to subsidies the stores?! The tax payers? Anyway, this Giant Food that's closing? Another Giant is opening less than a mile away on Wilkins Ave.. Think about that. This woman says "they're taking things away from the black community". She knows full well that a new store is opening but she couldn't resist using the race card.
The location of a place does change the atmosphere of a store. Hopefully they will find other places to shop. Where you live does make a difference because I have access within a 15 minute drive to 13 markets and 6 farmers markets.