Verify: Living in a food desert

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  • @nickyoung630
    @nickyoung630 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The location of the Walmart wouldn’t be that bad an issue if maybe the town had an express bus line to the store that went from a few neighborhoods directly to the store and back.

    • @7arboreal
      @7arboreal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Exactly, the store itself should lay on buses, it would bring in loads of customers.

    • @ducatipaso1386
      @ducatipaso1386 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Costco and some larger shopping centers in Japan have courtesy buses. Brings in lots of business.

  • @Eva-kd7wi
    @Eva-kd7wi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    More community gardens , where locals can get involved even kids!

    • @stefanwidowsson1183
      @stefanwidowsson1183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      WOW more communist partys , where locals can get involved even kids = Venceremos Camaradas - HASTA LA VICTORIA !!!!!

    • @HelenEk7
      @HelenEk7 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Absolutely/ But even if you manages to grow a lot of your own vegetables you would still have to go to the store on regular basis to get fresh milk, yoghurt, bread, fish, meat, etc. So it wont solve the issue with having to take the bus to a grocery shop every week.

  • @vitodanelli
    @vitodanelli 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “Cost more for security and loss prevention”?!? What a polite way of saying shoplifting is a major problem for supermarkets locating in certain areas. Why would a business turn down $3 million incentive to operate a supermarket?

  • @loldidyoureally3246
    @loldidyoureally3246 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I used to catch the city bus to the grocery store with my 2 small children for $1 because they rode free. Then I would catch a cab home which was around $7 (now we have Uber and lyft which is way cheaper) and I would do this twice a month which cost me less than $20 for the month! Way cheaper than insurance, gas, taxes, inspections, oil changes, maintenance and car payments for the year. Honestly the easiest and cheapest time period of my life. My 4 and 6 year old helped bring about $300 worth of groceries up 3 flights of stairs. So we even got a little work out in too. Miss those days

    • @kommisar.
      @kommisar. ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, who wants the burden of owning a car when you can just waste lots of time waiting for the bus?!

    • @howellwong11
      @howellwong11 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't know what I would do if I didn't have a car. Mobility is high on my priority list. It cost me $2000 a year for this privilege, mostly for car insurance.

  • @uranusexplorer270
    @uranusexplorer270 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The problem is that people steal from the stores. It's the community's fault.

    • @mark9531
      @mark9531 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ngatoa1018 A sure fire way to the undertaker's slab is to hold up a liquor store.
      People know that the Kroger clerk does not have a gun under her apron.

  • @nomad4k
    @nomad4k 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What’s wrong with these documentaries where some one just talks, talks and talks but never mentions the one thing that is at the core of this problem. THEFT !

  • @mandysimmons2769
    @mandysimmons2769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    We are not in a food desert but I did have an experience with this. It's a long story I got caught up in taking two older ladies ( from a poor area ) to the store one summer when the one's car crapped out. It got more bothersome and complicated by silly stuff they had started doing ( long story ) all summer long and then the lady told me "Between me and her church people she didn't need no car any more." I was already fed up with it and the last day I dropped them off I saw where the one lady ( the sister to the first one I knew ) had a car sitting in her driveway. I said who's car is that and she said "uh yeah that's my daughter but she work nights." I said she don't work every night so she can take y'all to the store. Clearly these little church ladies had played me. LOL. If they had not made it so unpleasant for me, I might still be helping them. People with cars in their area should have helped them.

    • @mandysimmons2769
      @mandysimmons2769 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hamsandwichindahouse Yup.

    • @jdstep97
      @jdstep97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Mandy Simmons - People in the area probably didn't want to be bothered with them either. That's why I always put a limit on things I do for free. You need help? Okay, I can help you, but only for the next two weeks. That last week, I'd tell the person how glad I was to be able to help and hope they can find some other help. I have personal obligations to attend (be it, reading, talking to a friend on the phone, watching TV, whatever). They don't need to know what the obligation is, though. Just that you have other things to do besides chauffeur them around.

    • @kommisar.
      @kommisar. ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, women like the reason you have a food desert.

  • @dorawilliams4628
    @dorawilliams4628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I feel their pain, because I lived in a small town, I took my three daughters, and move to the city.

  • @GeckoHiker
    @GeckoHiker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At this point in time, Walmart takes SNAP and EBT online, then delivers food via the mail. But, they don't provide produce. We take advantage of the home delivery in a rural area and supplement with homegrown produce, year-round. I'm not on SNAP, but I know that you can buy vegetable plants and seeds with it. Anyway, I've got spinach, kale, cabbage, celery, and onions growing in buckets in my kitchen. We just snip the outer leaves of cabbage because it won't grow into heads during the winter. Cabbage is great nutrition, cooked or raw. Celery just wants to GROW, from roots--used as a flavor enhancer in soup and pilaf. And onions do not care how cold it is as long as it's not freezing. We use the tops for flavor and nutrition. These veggies make beans and rice into to tasty, nutritious meals. We also have plenty of potates, onions, carrots, sunchokes, and other root vegetables put up from the summer garden. Root crops do not need much work to start, grow, or harvest.

    • @Preservestlandry
      @Preservestlandry 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      When they say "more than a mile" from the store, that's in urban areas.

  • @ericyuan9718
    @ericyuan9718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Time for some Amazon food delivery services. Maybe the Gov't needs to intervene and give a discount for food delivery services for low income households, make SNAP into 2 parts - 1) money dedicated to a "healthy foods list" and 2) discretionary food spending.

    • @dcg590
      @dcg590 ปีที่แล้ว

      Every time the government gets involved things get worse.

  • @juliaschetinskaya3150
    @juliaschetinskaya3150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So many questions spinning in my head. Why does it have to be a large supermarket? Why don’t these areas have food tracks? Why don’t people grow their veggies? Why don’t neighbours cooperate and go to the supermarket together or order in bulk? These are genuine questions, I don’t mean to bash on online or say ‘it’s their own fault’.

  • @robertlimestone6248
    @robertlimestone6248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    These communities do have money to spend of food and groceries, but the people there--in are openly hostile to retailers of every sort, not just food. Businesses lose money to crime, shoplifting, arson, vandalism, property destruction, assaults on employees and service providers, making it impossible to function. Insurance companies can't insure a business in places where claims cost more than the value of the business. Businesses must move out to where they don't have to face the daily war against them. Then, people like the producers of this documentary blame the business owners of anti social behavior when stores close down. Food will return when people stop destroying their own communities. It is very hard for some to grasp when they take no responsibility for their own actions.

    • @Dany-id6kt
      @Dany-id6kt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ngatoa1018 ‘cause liquor have much longer shelf life than fresh products? Also Many of the poor communities have tried to prevent grocery chains from entering their neighborhoods in fear of gentrification

    • @mark9531
      @mark9531 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ngatoa1018 "Why are there plenty liquor stores everywhere?"
      A sure-fired way to the undertaker's slab is to hold up a liquor store. Everyone knows that liquor store owner has a gun in his waistband. It is impossible to shop-lift at a liquor store.
      The cashier at the Kroger is not armed and is easy prey to a hold-up. Plus Kroger will not stop a shoplifter.

  • @RandallHallKaizenReiki
    @RandallHallKaizenReiki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw a "mobile" grocery store. Not a full size one, but it offered fresh produce and other core items. It would come to a neighborhood once a week. It could serve multiple neighborhoods and lock up in a secure area every night.

  • @simoncaron6424
    @simoncaron6424 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The lack of demand causes food deserts. You’ll never find one in a high immigrant population area.

  • @MrFergusferret
    @MrFergusferret 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why does it have to be big superstores!!!

  • @annahollander111
    @annahollander111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I do not live in the US. Here, most smaller supermarkets are owned by individuals. They started bringing in fruit and vegetables. In other parts of town there are lots of fruit and vegetable stores, all privately owned. No chain. We have poverty. A lot. But everyone who has money has access to an abundance of fresh food.

  • @howellwong11
    @howellwong11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in an upscale (not a rich) neighborhood with an upscale supermarket. I came from a poor family, but worked hard all my life, so I don't have to remain poor.

  • @Kiwiwanderer
    @Kiwiwanderer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Bring it in on food trucks like they do in Japan. Deliveries twice per week.

    • @punothebear
      @punothebear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Japan is relatively crime free. No neighborhood thugs or ghettos in Japan. Very small number of nonJapanese so the culture shares more positive values.

  • @jdstep97
    @jdstep97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Lady, get rid of those plastic bags and find some re-useable cloth bags. A whole lot easier to carry your stuff. And sometimes you can put the strap of one bag over your shoulder and hold one or two other bags. The stuff you put in two of those plastic bags will probably fit into one re-useable bag.

  • @lindacowles756
    @lindacowles756 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    G'day, WFAA! The first woman featured in this piece (Theresa?) had to leave 3 young children behind while she went to the shop. I may have missed something, but who was watching the kids in her absence?

  • @conniemcloed41
    @conniemcloed41 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    They should come together as a community and pull the money that they want to spend in fresh food and then take it to the corner store and get them to order some in

  • @vinny-is-here
    @vinny-is-here 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As of this writing, the close captions are extremely inaccurate. Whole words are missing and several are spelled incorrectly.

  • @Taisia_Rineli
    @Taisia_Rineli 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A mile away? It’s sound ridiculous. Sound like an excuse for building more stores. When I was an university student I went every week to the grocery store with was 5 miles away. Backpack is you’re everything in that case. And all my friend from the same dormitory did the same. And nobody complain. And non of us had a car.

  • @jzwalz51robin45
    @jzwalz51robin45 ปีที่แล้ว

    They destroy all of the resources in their communities....

  • @RealJudyi
    @RealJudyi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Three million can create a hydroponic system inside that mart that creates jobs for people. Yeah you won't get as many products but just fresh food and learning how to jar up food will exponentially help these poor families have better food.
    A comment also said something about trucking these items and that's also a great idea if they are helped with gas by the town because driving is really expensive.
    It would take a lot of action but it's very possible.

  • @jimramsey3279
    @jimramsey3279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Crime, Crime, Crime . Defunding the police should help.

  • @deniseadams1703
    @deniseadams1703 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don’t supermarkets like Walmart do food deliveries in America. I can do my shopping online from any of our big supermarkets and choose the day I want it delivered. I haven’t been in a supermarket for years.

    • @shoryacione5175
      @shoryacione5175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes they just charge fees that most people cant afford

  • @debbieframpton3857
    @debbieframpton3857 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's too bad she's not able to locate one of those laundry carts where she could push her groceries home from the bus stop

  • @workinperkins
    @workinperkins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They should use my hydroponic system and grow year round.

  • @anthonystrohmayer9191
    @anthonystrohmayer9191 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Food deserts are mostly over because many do delivery like WalMart since the pandemic

    • @wturner777
      @wturner777 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This video was dated back in 2017, and Walmart Delivery wasn't that big yet. It has taken off since the pandemic.

  • @josephclark4999
    @josephclark4999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can't she get her husband to help out. Does anyone know her circumstances? Don't have kids if you don't have the ability to care for them.

    • @Preservestlandry
      @Preservestlandry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You want her to get married to have a houseboy? That's weird.

  • @edwardbirdsall6580
    @edwardbirdsall6580 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazon. Walmart delivery, mail order pharmacy. Community co-opt. Churches weekly bus rides. Local government could run a store and have welfare receivers earn their checks while learning a trade.

  • @verareiki9263
    @verareiki9263 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My suitcase would feel buy a cart that has wheels. Also you can use a backpack

  • @Landis_Grant
    @Landis_Grant 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fresh food at Walmart? Lol

  • @michaelwojcicki3624
    @michaelwojcicki3624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Traveling 8 miles to a Walmart grocery is not an insurmountable problem.

  • @bigspoon7984
    @bigspoon7984 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    If you don't spend money on nails and hair for one month - you could buy a collapsible grocery cart for under 30 dollars. The cart can easily hold 7 bags of groceries. Easier than toting a few bags by hand - and the bus service allows them.
    After many, many months of savings you may be able to purchase a used car. Thus eliminating the bus service.
    Every small step you make; is a step up.
    Be proactive - not reactive.

    • @nnyv0040
      @nnyv0040 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Maybe it's not a matter of being able to afford for a second hand car. It's also the on going funds associated with owning a car (insurance, fuel, maintenance, etc). Most people who live in food deserts are low income individuals who consistently have to battle with fanancial hardship. Your solution is a good idea but it's not sustainable. I'm sure there are many people out there already (who have not been interviewed) that do this already but still struggle with money. I have only witness people who struggle living in food deserts through TH-cam and have never experienced anyone personally who are going through this now so it's hard for me to make a comment that can assist them more permanently.

    • @debrawilliams7983
      @debrawilliams7983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why doesn't she ask one of her "friends" to help her get a car with that many kids.

    • @debbieframpton3857
      @debbieframpton3857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have one of those fold-up carts I got it at a garage sale for $2 I use it when I go to a flea market

  • @verareiki9263
    @verareiki9263 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some people could start growing food to vegetables and stuff all you need is seeds and the one thing too I don't know if people know that's like half of the food you eat fresh food fruit that have seeds in it can be grown into the food that you bought and ate

  • @TheNecessaryEvil
    @TheNecessaryEvil 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Why do we have food deserts?” Because crime forces businesses to close forever. A city isn’t “designed” to make it hard for people to get food. If there are people, money can be made through business. Crime makes them move away or never build in the first place. You’re young and could work, but, nah, you saw those shoes and just had to take ‘em.

  • @kevinwasilewski9754
    @kevinwasilewski9754 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    im sorry that Jaretha caught pregnancy three times by 26. Imagine being that unlucky.

  • @dogan6070
    @dogan6070 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If I lived There, I would move.

    • @maacof
      @maacof 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Most people in those areas don't have the money to move

    • @back2the80s
      @back2the80s 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Pete. A u got money to pay her moving expenses?

    • @helena3631
      @helena3631 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it is expensive to move when i moved to new York years ago i had to pay 1,500x3 to get my apartment (rent,security,and last month) now new yok thru legislation because it was causing widespread homelessnes in an already expensive city and the landlords were just being greedy plus when you moved in you had the next month rent coming so u actually needed 6,000 to move in .Rent in nyc on average now is 2,000+ a month homelessnes is so bad here

  • @misaple3249
    @misaple3249 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My teacher forced me here

    • @lousyllamma986
      @lousyllamma986 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just because you're a student doesn't mean you can get my attention. Just because I am the same as you I won't stand for this language. I'm just kidding, I just wanted to say "me too"

  • @karencalifano6132
    @karencalifano6132 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    48 minutes isn't all that long to ride on a bus. Once a week it isn't that bad. You do what you gotta do. She could buy a shopping cart to fit more food into it so she doesn't have to carry it in her arms. I'm not saying it's easy, but life isn't always easy. The fact that the cost of living in these areas is way cheap is one of the reasons why there aren't many larger supermarkets closer. Truth is, the closer you are to a larger city with many options to purchase food and such, the higher the cost of living becomes. It's all about money. The major chains like Walmart, Target, Krogers, and whatever else chains they have in Texas won't open in these areas because they probably won't make the money they need to stay in business. A "smaller" chain may do better in these areas. It sucks but it is what it is. The organic farm is wonderful as well. I wish we had those in NYC!!

  • @bebespeaks7827
    @bebespeaks7827 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    So that lady going to Walmart by bus, then saying she had to buy less food than avg bc she didn’t take her kids with her to help her carry extra bags, and she was juggling a wallet and water bottle and a phone in two hands.........can I throw a dead fish at her face? Please? She could have taken a backpack and 2 fabric reusable shopping bag with her. Then she could’ve some groceries like a milk jug and cans in the backpack, The the produce and other foods in 2 fabric bags. But no, this lady needs to lose the manicures and learn to take bags with her. I know the documentary clip is like 2yrs old, but that just bugged me, like she was too lazy to prepare ahead of time.

    • @tiff3012697
      @tiff3012697 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Bebe Speaks it cost more to take her kids. She may take a back pack or something when she’s by herself but she had extra hands that day.

    • @back2the80s
      @back2the80s 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bebe Speaks pay the bus fare for her kids ok?

    • @amarieimani876
      @amarieimani876 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Bebe Speaks You’re obviously missing the point. The grocery store is within an 8 mile radius from her home. In addition to that, she doesn’t have access to a vehicle. Correct me if I’m wrong but she never said that the produce was to expensive she said that access to it was close to inaccessible. To different things. So before you pick apart what she can and cannot afford how about you look at the entire situation at hand.

    • @karencalifano6132
      @karencalifano6132 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree. She can buy a shopping cart as well!!!!!!!!!!!!! That holds a lot of bags. Use a shopping cart and a back pack and you can buy 2 weeks worth of groceries at Walmart!!!!! It's definitely doable. These people seem lazy and entitled. Be proactive!! Use your brains, have common sense. Sheesh!!

    • @back2the80s
      @back2the80s 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Karen Califano u expect her to walk and push cart 8 miles. What a maroon!

  • @niss2142
    @niss2142 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah ha! 3:45 market chain was willing to lease a property to open a market even a reduced price. The proper follow up should have been asking the market chains why? My guess of the answer, CRIME! So what does the politicians and the community expect? Open a market and give out the food for free?

  • @kingjames4019
    @kingjames4019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why do people believe in this ignorant myth?
    Is it an educational program problem?

    • @Preservestlandry
      @Preservestlandry 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's a definition of "food desert" - more than a mile in an urban area. So they do exist. I don't know what you mean by myth.

  • @elliottslab
    @elliottslab 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    8 miles isn’t that far seems like a transport issue

    • @sidblore7529
      @sidblore7529 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      With no baby daddy it's harder

  • @ari-jv
    @ari-jv ปีที่แล้ว

    So. Basically the people are broke or thieves

  • @rezaadara7866
    @rezaadara7866 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    She can buy small lorry that i used to the grocer

  • @marliseisrael3017
    @marliseisrael3017 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stop looking for bug supermarkets. Look to fund the community in growing their own produce. Also, get a Co-Op statrted with the 3 million dollars offerred

  • @marliseisrael3017
    @marliseisrael3017 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm sorry, but Sav-a-Lot is dirty. It smells and has low quality produce. That's why they came.

  • @sarahmccaster8571
    @sarahmccaster8571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My reply is the same as @connie mcloed

  • @endoftherope
    @endoftherope 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You got dirt under your feet you can grow food you just have to work a little but thats the problem everyone wants it handed to them

  • @congolesemermaidwarrior8506
    @congolesemermaidwarrior8506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She's so beautiful

  • @paintsecurity3869
    @paintsecurity3869 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ay what’s the answers ?

  • @musaphakula8639
    @musaphakula8639 ปีที่แล้ว

    Theft, vandalism🙄

  • @Mimi-ss3xx
    @Mimi-ss3xx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    HOW????

  • @vikkigupta2003
    @vikkigupta2003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Walmart in 8miles isn't a problem. The real problem is not having a car. It must be 8-10mins drive to grocery. Sorry but its too exaggerated .

  • @dcg590
    @dcg590 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Teretha is her own worst enemy. 26 with 3 kids and no husband. Hard to feel bad. Feel bad for the kids being born into poverty. She is a cautionary tale.

  • @remytheroute6503
    @remytheroute6503 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Where is her man ?

    • @piecesofstarlight
      @piecesofstarlight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      There is a thing people do sometimes. It's called divorce.
      Not every woman "has a man". Last time I checked you don't just bash one over the head and drag one home...

    • @allthemikemartinmoney8046
      @allthemikemartinmoney8046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@piecesofstarlight 😆😆😁😁😁

    • @troyhyatt7568
      @troyhyatt7568 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably working to support family

    • @debrawilliams7983
      @debrawilliams7983 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah right

    • @debrawilliams7983
      @debrawilliams7983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I bet her "Man" eats more than her kids eat.

  • @valhawkins1954
    @valhawkins1954 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Give him the mullah.

  • @emeraldkimble7602
    @emeraldkimble7602 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don’t have money for cab nor credit debit card to get Uber Lyft norfamily friends yo give free rides I’m transportation imoaure

  • @ryanzackel2019
    @ryanzackel2019 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is not a story.
    Drive to a different store.
    People in the country have this issue also.
    Get a vehicle.