A bit of a rewrite and the addition of more information. Poverty and ruralness have been with us forever. Food deserts were discovered around the late 1980s. The later has a connection to the former. Prior to 1980, small towns and poor neighborhoods could generally count on having a grocery store, perhaps even several. It […]

Been following this issue for a while. Pulled this from an Atlantic article from December 2024. In the 1980s, consumers did more than half of their grocery shopping at independent stores. This included both single-location businesses and small, locally owned chains. This changed in the 1980s. Convinced tough antitrust enforcement was holding back American business, […]