I am constantly reminded of the excellent tale of the grasshopper and ants?

It's not hard to find though. http://americannutritionassociation....s-food-deserts

It refers to locations where at least 1/3 of the population according to census live farther than 1 mile from fresh produce and whole foods. 10 miles if it's a rural area. As to why the grocery stores failed and pulled out, that's a good question.

It's the type of location where someone might actually bitch about the cost to feed a family of four at a fast food joint to bring it back around again.

I understand this. I am saying how come those rural areas can support few restaurants and at the same time no grocery store?
From investors point of view - there is X number of people that is needed for grocery store to be viable investment. And there is Y number of people needed for restaurant investment being viable. X is smaller than Y. And you talk not even about single restaurant and 0 grocery store, but about few restaurants and 0 grocery store.
That is just difficult to imagine. I mean if few restaurants are being profitable in that area it certainly means that one grocery store would be profitable as well. Very profitable... Yet nobody invests in a grocery store there for some reason :)

HOLY FUCKING CHRIST!!??!!??!!

They live a whole 1 mile from a super market.

FUCK ME.

For the love of God... someone help these people before they all die.

Look, I already understand what you mean by living far away from grocery stores. I just question how do "few restaurants" are profitable in certain area where not even a single grocery store could be profitable. It does not make any sense.
Ok you have rural area and 50 people living there so no grocery store there. But how come "few restaurants" are there?

I drove over 1 mile the other day in my wheelchair on a severely bumpy and pothole filled sidewalk/street, just to enjoy the sunny day. Forgive me for not feeling sorry for someone that can't walk one mile, twice a month, to stock up on food for? get this? SURVIVAL.

Too hard to walk home with groceries? I can understand that. That's where you make friends or pay someone. If you can pay for that fast food, you can pay somebody $20 every two weeks to provide you with SURVIVAL transportation.

Excluding highway traffic dependent restaurant/fast food locations, rural restaurants tend to be owner operated enterprises. Food suppliers might deliver to him or he makes the 10 mile drive himself. Businesses like his don't survive without a hard work ethic and driving once a week for supplies really isn't that big a deal.

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One whole mile? lol, what a hardship! Where can I donate money for these poor hermits society forgot.

Don't ask me why a grocery store fails in those locations. It's a government study on health and obesity or whatnot. Not hard to find fault with government shit is it.

1 mile :1orglaugh

that's not even 5 min driving distance...
by bike you could get there in <10 mins, drunk and with a flat tire on top of that...
even walking shouldn't take much more than 15 minutes....

I would say these are the people which God himself has forgotten. I mean really... what is the solution? To drive a mile - that takes like 60 seconds? Or... what? Ride a bicycle - that could take up to 5 minutes? Ride with friends? Or... fuck.. walk for 10 minutes to feed your kids? Talk about hardship.

I just imagined explaining this to my grandfather in my head. He cut me off with a disgusted look and punched me in the face.