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Friday, July 7, 2017
What the hood need? Grocery Stores and Urban gardens
What the hood needs? Grocery stores that the Community can afford. We also need Community gardens. We need a place where we can buy healthy food. Where I live we have a Family Dollar and a butchershop that sells bad food. We have no place to sell fresh vegetables. Most of the people do not drive they must take a bus or a Jitney to some place else. During the summer we have a Farmer's Market on Saturday but in the winter we have no access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
When I was a kid this same town had at least four Supermarkets and a whole lot of Mom and Pops grocery stores. Braddock back before was the wealthiest in Allegheny County and now it's one of the Poorest. The New York Times said Braddock was the poorest zipcode. They also called it Hell and I still haven't forgiven that Braddock is not hell, but I digress, Braddock people can not always afford the cost of a Jitney, an unlicensed cab station, due to that we cannot do big grocery shopping. That would leave out anything healthy.
Healthy food is a lot more expensive but fruits and vegetables are affordable but they are heavy when you are on the bus and you have no grocery cart.
Stores that come to the Hood needs to be more of moderate to inexpensive foods because stores such as Trader Joe's or whole Foods are to expensive and will fail.
It would help seniors who could walk to the store or young mothers who cannot afford a jitney and doesn't drive.
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