Since I haven't posted enough about fresh food on this blog...
Wendell Pierce, who we know as Detective William Moreland from
The Wire, has recently opened a chain of convenience stores in lower income areas of in New Orleans. He also opened a full service grocery store in a local New Orleans food desert. Not only does this grocery store offer fresh food to local residents, it also offers the customers free rides home if they spend over $50! Pierce explained that these convenience and grocery stores can:
- promote accessibility to fresh food
- help create jobs for the area
- educate the neighborhood on how to eat healthy
- show other cities a successful model to overcome food deserts
Do you think these convenience and grocery stores will have this type of impact on the community?
Click here or
here to read the article and watch the interview
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