You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a family of four.
If you have to walk more than a mile to get some groceries, it would be a good thing to stay awhile and talk while you do your shopping. Make sure to bring along some nice eco paper bags to put your stuff in. LoL! FYI: The three most popular items at most small stores and where 90% of profits are: 1. Marlboro cigarettes 2. Budweiser beer 3. Coca-Cola [image: Inline image 1] On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>wrote: > There used to be a string of stores around here called 'Stop 'n Go' - then > they got bought out and became large Valero 'Corner Stores'. You probably > know about '7 Eleven' and the old 'Circle K'. > > [image: Inline image 1] > > Many of the older smaller stores around here got bought up by Pakistanis > or Indians and converted into small neighborhood grocery stores with names > like 'Stop n' Shop, 'Stop 'n Joy', 'Pack 'n Tote', and "Circle A-Z'. It's > all a matter of placement and positioning.Go figure. > > There's a little store store up in Austin called 'Quickie Pickie' and it's > a drive through store. But these could hardly be called grocery stores any > more than Dollar General could be called a Department Store. So, how far do > you live from a real corner grocery store and could you walk there if you > wanted to? You might be living in a food desert. > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Another place to live that sucks is in a food desert. It's all a matter >> of placement and positioning. >> >> You live in a food desert, according to the U.S. Department of >> Agriculture, if the closest grocery store is at least one mile away — it's >> 10 miles in rural areas — and 20 percent of the residents in your census >> tract live at or below the federal poverty line, which is $22,350 for a >> family of four. >> >> "A food desert is an area where affordable healthy food is difficult to >> obtain", except by a automobile. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert >> >> [image: Inline image 1] >> >> Grocery Stores in Redmond Neighborhoods? >> >> http://redmondcity.blogspot.com/2011/06/grocery-stores-in-neighborhoods.html >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:15 PM, <s3raph...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> ** >>> >>> >>> You ain't seen nothing kid. Where I was born and brought up was voted >>> the worst town in Britain! (Middlesbrough in the north-east of England.) >>> Funny thing is, I don't resent the place and have quite fond memories of >>> the people (friendly and bullshit-free), but I can't see me ever leaving >>> London for anywhere except maybe New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, . . . some >>> metropolis. Perhaps I've just been corrupted. >>> >>> >>> http://tinyurl.com/mywrn4 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote: >>> >>> Being a military brat, I've lived in some great places, and some places >>> that sucked. One time I got stuck for a year in Valdosta, Georgia; another >>> time I got stuck up in Lubbock, Texas. >>> >>> So, when we recently visited this place it reminded me of one of the >>> towns I've lived in that sucked - back when I was seventeen. In this town >>> there is a store called Dan's and a cafe called Pancho's. Go figure. >>> >>> When Rita and I were at Pancho's last weekend, we saw four guys sitting >>> at a table, three dressed in plaid shirts, one wearing a cowboy hat, eating >>> Tex-mex food and drinking beer from bottles. Now that's classy! >>> >>> Can't even get a date on Saturday night! That's because in places that >>> suck, there are no unmarried women to date, and if there were, there's no >>> place to go. LoL! >>> >>> >>> [image: Inline image 1] >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
