food desert

The SF Market Merchants Support Newly-Opened Lucky Supermarket in Food Desert of The Bayview Community

November 3, 2022 The SF Market

The SF Market, a key pillar of the San Francisco Bay Area’s critical food infrastructure, is pleased to share that their merchants will be providing fresh produce to the recently opened Lucky supermarket in the Bayview Hunters Point community.  …

Emerson Donates Sustainable Refrigeration Technologies to Collaborative Market in Food Desert

May 13, 2021 Emerson

Emerson, a global software and technology leader, is donating a unique, sustainable refrigeration architecture developed at its Helix Innovation Center in Dayton, Ohio, to the city’s Gem City Market – a collaborative grocery store to provide fresh food amid a local food desert. …

As Rural Groceries Fade Away, Lawmakers Wonder Whether to Act

October 3, 2019 April Simpson, Pew Charitable Trusts

“When you have a small rural town and the grocery store dies, the town dries up and it just blows away,” said Nancy McCloud, who revived B Street Market in 2017 and became its owner. “There are six towns east of here — they just lost the grocery store, then they lost the gas station, and then they lost the bank and now they’re nothing.” …