[Magdalen] 21.5 stone...ugh

[Jay Weigel]

I've lived in some pretty food desert-y places. When I was in college the
closest thing was a Kroger and it was almost a mile hike from one apartment
and a mile and a half from the next. There were some small groceries, but
prices were high and stock was limited. Then when I was older and moved to
a different part of town, there were small neighborhood supermarkets of the
type that are now defunct, the kind you could walk to a couple of times a
week that had a decent stock of meats and other goods. Those pretty much
don't exist any more. Now I live where you have to have a car.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> Presumably this applies to urban areas - lots of folks up here live more
> than 2 miles from *any* kind of store, never mind a supermarket. And no
> public transportation to speak of. We are actually fortunate in that we're
> 2 miles from Hardwick, which has 3 "supermarkets" - a local market, a chain
> (Tops, out of Buffalo), and a coop full of local organic produce. Hardly a
> food desert.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Lynn Ronkainen
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 5:31 PM
>
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] 21.5 stone...ugh
>
> How many of you are familiar with the phrase "food desert". It is used a
> lot
> here in parts of  the city of Houston and some of the poorer outlying areas
> (to be designated as such so as not to confuse with the wealthy outlying
> areas, that are actually incorporated within the city  so they can 'call
> their own shots').
>
> For the unaware a food desert is an area where there are NO traditional
> grocery stores of any kind except a corner convenience store or one
> associated with a gas station. Not a small family owned grocery store, not
> a
> branch of a local or national chain - no grocery stores that can be walked
> to (say a 2 mile distance).
>
> There are many initiatives going on now to lure grocery stores into these
> areas with limited success.  There was a time when these areas were better
> served but through loss/theft, and not *enough* sales, the stores closed up
> shop.
>
> Lynn, often forgetting to be thankful for  what seems to me to be 'little
> things'.
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a
> single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> by Richard Rohr
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 4:22 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] 21.5 stone...ugh
>
> That's WEIRD. It's always on the perimeter of every store I've ever shopped
>>>>>
>>>> at. Oh well, it's California.<<<
>>
>> Specifically, it's Raley's (Nob Hill, Bel Air).  Every other store in
>> town it's on the side.  I'm rare, for my immediate (and by that I mean
>> short walking distance) neighborhood has THREE fully functioning grocery
>> stores: Nob Hill, Lucky's (sometimes SaveMart, depending on which way the
>> corporate wind blows), and a Mom & Pop place called Star Market which is
>> the oldest of the three (owned by a Chinese family with roots that go
>> farther back than most of us around here).  In terms of produce and meat
>> quality, it's Star first, then Nob Hill, then Lucky's.  (Actually, put
>> Lucky's at the tail end of all lists.)  And what makes this convenient as
>> hell is that whenever Nob Hill workers go on strike (only once since I've
>> been in this part of town, 2005), I've got two other stores to get what I
>> need while supporting my unionized friends.
>>
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