http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/05/new-tool-maps-food-deserts-in-the-u-s/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/05/new-tool-maps-food-deserts-in-the-u-s/comment-page-1/#comment-13420 hawkeye Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:19:15 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=9117#comment-13420 maybe the residents didnt have any money. its a club, you gotta join. you also buy bulk, which is a problem if you live in small apt. Price club probably didnt fit community. these clubs are really suburban phenomena, people with big basements and freezers and money. also residents may have habits of buying poor food choices - advertising isnt enough, educating a previously underserved population is important. Was the community involved in setting up this club? did san diego gov act as a facilitator in helping the community organize itself around the need for better nutrition food store choices? gov and business need to collaborate with the community, for it to be sustainable, a project like this has to be bottom up, from the community, not top down from gov and business. maybe the residents didnt have any money. its a club, you gotta join. you also buy bulk, which is a problem if you live in small apt. Price club probably didnt fit community. these clubs are really suburban phenomena, people with big basements and freezers and money. also residents may have habits of buying poor food choices – advertising isnt enough, educating a previously underserved population is important. Was the community involved in setting up this club? did san diego gov act as a facilitator in helping the community organize itself around the need for better nutrition food store choices? gov and business need to collaborate with the community, for it to be sustainable, a project like this has to be bottom up, from the community, not top down from gov and business.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/05/new-tool-maps-food-deserts-in-the-u-s/comment-page-1/#comment-13323 Brian Hoag Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:21:45 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=9117#comment-13323 Here in San Diego, Sol Price, the creator of the original membership store,Price Club, attempted to remidy this problem in a particularly underserved minority community. His facility was readily accessably to mass transit, and advertised heavily. He spent millions, over twice he was legally obligated to in his contract with the city, and finally had to give up. The USDA would have spent the money better trying to find out why this community did not even try to take advantage of what Mr. Price had offered. Just because you build it doesn't mean they will come and every philanthropist will have learned a lesson from what happens=ed here. Here in San Diego, Sol Price, the creator of the original membership store,Price Club, attempted to remidy this problem in a particularly underserved minority community. His facility was readily accessably to mass transit, and advertised heavily. He spent millions, over twice he was legally obligated to in his contract with the city, and finally had to give up.
The USDA would have spent the money better trying to find out why this community did not even try to take advantage of what Mr. Price had offered. Just because you build it doesn’t mean they will come and every philanthropist will have learned a lesson from what happens=ed here.

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