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I saw one of the cases here and they talked about the "food desert" when the next supermarket was about 2 miles away.
100% TRUE.Food deserts are caused by looting and shoplifting.
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Minneapolis neighborhoods face food desert after looting closes multiple stores
In Chicago’s Poorest Areas, Recovery May Be Long, If It Comes At All
The city’s looting hit retail chains in low-income neighborhoods especially hard. It’s far from clear how many will rebuild and reopen.
Emails reveal frustration with city led to SoDo food desert
A KIRO 7 investigation reveals frustration with the city’s response to crime and homelessness that led to the closing of SoDo’s only low-cost, full-service grocery store.
Those 'Food Deserts' May Become Food Wastelands
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SODO's only grocery store to close amid crime
After dealing with nearby homeless camps, used needles, shoplifting, theft and in-store assaults, the SoDo Grocery Outlet will close when its lease ends in February. The closure is significant for several reasons. While corporate officials downplay crime and homelessness as factors in the...
Looting forces Germantown stores to close, leaving residents with limited access to food
The part of the city residents have referred to as a “food desert” has been left without access to some of their already few food and drug stores.www.fox29.com
Chicago's South Side Left With Few Food Options After Weekend Violence
"Now you have to go out of your way to get this stuff. People that don't have a car. People that do not have family and friends."
Black Girls Break Bread Steps In As Looting Leaves Food Deserts Even Worse Off
First with the coronavirus and now with looting, it is harder than ever before for some families in Chicago to get food.
Chicago residents left scrambling for medications and essentials as looted pharmacies, grocery stores remain closed
Residents, already hit hard by the Governor's stay-at-home order are now having a difficult time meeting their most basic needs.
Chicago Food Deserts Grow on City's South Side Due to Looting During Recent Protests
Well, some South Side, Chicago communities have even fewer choices for groceries after violence during the protests for George Floyd’s death.
Walgreens to close 5 more S.F. stores, citing rising costs of retail crime
After next month’s closures, Walgreens will have closed at least 22 stores in San...
Walgreens closes five more stores in San Francisco due to thefts
Officials with the nation's second-largest drug store say they have closed 10 stores in San Francisco since 2019.
Walgreens closing 5 more San Francisco stores due to organized shoplifting
Last year, Walgreens closed one store in the city where the chain said it was losing $1,000 a day to thefts.www.usatoday.com
Looters Leave More Food Deserts In Black Communities - BlackDoctor.org - Where Wellness & Culture Connect
Because of a number of looters, Black communities have been left with more food deserts than ever. Residents have to trave nowl for fresh food
San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge
Friday: The mundane crime of shoplifting has spun out of control in San Francisco, forcing some chain stores to close.web.archive.org
Neighborhoods where stores were destroyed become food deserts overnight
Grocery stores. Bodegas. Pharmacies. Check-cashing spots. All gone.www.marketplace.org
Cities are not states.
true, but they are within states, and many run by Dems, within red states...which just highlights that even dem policies within a smaller geographic area within a state, can negatively impact the entire state.
