The Associated Press reports because Atlantic City, New Jersey, does not have a grocery stores “a state agency and two hospital systems are sending mobile grocery stores into poor areas of the city to bring residents access to fresh meat and produce, at below-market rates.
“The programs aim to bring high quality food and fresh produce to economically deprived areas that lack meaningful access to healthy food>
The fact is that “in this seaside resort, where $5 billion worth of in-person and online gambling gets done each year, there still is not a supermarket. People who live in Atlantic City must either drive off the island to a mainland store, take public transportation — whose cost eats away at the amount left for food — or shop in pricey, poorly stocked corner stores in their own city.”
The AP writes that “April Schetler, who runs the program for Virtua Health, said it is designed to fill part of the void in communities without a real supermarket like Atlantic City and Camden. All its food is sold at 30% to 50% below normal retail prices.
“There is no income restriction on the program; anyone who shows up can shop, she said.”
KC’s View:
Is it wrong that when I read this story, my first thought was, “Where did Susan Sarandon buy the lemons?”
A question that, I readily acknowledge, will mean absolutely nothing to people under a certain age. (Like, 50.). The same people who, I suspect, have no idea who Burt Lancaster is.
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