AREC173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Food Desert, Convenience Store, Local Food
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Riverbend area does not have much access to supermarkets however people have the ability to drive to them because the income levels in this area are relatively high). An increase in the market share of super centres reduces the healthfulness for groceries: indonesia - higher expenditures at supermarkets are associated with increased expenditures on both health and unhealthy food. !2: more than half of the residents live in areas where they must travel twice as far or further to reach the closest mainstream grocer as they do to reach the closest. Thursday, september 22, 2016 fringe food location, such as a fast food restaurant or a convenience store: liquor stores are more prevalent compared to anything else. Big box stores, merger of food retailers, and restrictive covenants play a role in food deserts (ex. I"m selling you this house but it must remain pink or i"ll take you to civil court).