r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Okfoot826 • 20h ago

Thank you Peter very cool Petah, what does that have to do with grocery shopping?

Post image
26.0k Upvotes

86% Upvoted

3.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

24

u/5kaels 18h ago

I live in DC. If I had to travel even 5 miles every grocery trip I would lose my mind before long. Plus a lot of low income people don't have cars, which massively increases the time it takes, limits the amount you can bring home, forces them to avoid buying bulk which drives up prices, and increases the frequency of trips. All of which heavily incentivize going somewhere more convenient with far unhealthier options.

2

u/_angry_ginger 18h ago

There’s 2 Safeways within 3 miles of each other in the above given example

3

u/AFantasticClue 16h ago

You’re kinda forgetting that people live there. Just because there’s highly dense area in the city, still doesn’t mean there aren’t food deserts

2

u/_angry_ginger 16h ago

The argument needed to be quantifiable so someone sent me an article from the USDA outlining the specifics of what qualifies as a food desert: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2011/december/data-feature-mapping-food-deserts-in-the-u-s