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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said cinnamon sold by stores including the Dollar Tree and Family Dollar contains lead at levels that could be unsafe for people, particularly children, with prolonged exposure to the spice. The agency urged suppliers to recall the products voluntarily.
Cinnamon products included in the agency’s safety alert include the La Fiesta brand sold by La Superior and SuperMercados; Marcum brand sold by Save A Lot stores; MK brands sold by SF Supermarket; Swad brand sold by Patel Brothers; El Chilar brand sold by La Joya Morelense; and Supreme Tradition brand sold by Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores.
“More profitable” in this case also means “cheaper”. As a poor person, I appreciate the cheaper part.
Gnocchi is $1.25 at the dollar store and $3 at King Soopers. If I want produce and all the other goods at higher prices to subsidize that produce, I can walk over to King Soopers instead.
Your model of “contributing to food deserts” assumes that the dollar store is pushing out a regular grocery store. It’s not, because they don’t even use the same kind of real estate. The dollar store exists in a strip mall, and stores large enough to carry produce use standalone big box spaces.
As a result, these stores are not mutually exclusive and as you can see in my neighborhood, they coexist.
Unfortunately, there are scientific studies that show a strong correlation between the presence of dollar stores and food deserts. Your anecdotal experiences cannot overturn that. It might not be true yet where you are, but it is true in general across the country.
Dollar stores which are located in food deserts make it less likely for traditional grocery stores to move in
The presence of dollar stores is strongly correlated with the presence of food deserts (PDF)
When dollar stores enter an area, they “cause an exit of independent grocers and adversely affect retail employment”
Yeah no idk why this is a hard concept. Say I live 5 mins away from a DG but 15 mins away from the grocery store. Where do you think I’m gonna go if I just got home from work and wanna make some dinner.
Your behaviour is rational, and it explain exactly why dollar stores popping up everywhere isn’t good.
Well if the only food I can get at said DG is unhealthy processed garbage that creates a food desert.
Correct, because there really isn’t anything healthy to get at Dollar General. Okay, maybe a few things, but you’d have to work for it. Whereas if you walk into a grocery store, you’re immediately confronted with piles of fresh fruits and vegetables.
The correct answer to the issue is to have European zoning with plenty of small groceries stores and bakeries on street corners
Every dollar store could just be an Aldi
Just a PSA to any one of his confused by the non sequitural reply it got ninja edited. It originally read that the poster could get certain grocery items cheaper at dollar stores.
Anyone else love how this guy so confidently just goes, “your scientifically backed up claims are wrong because I saw something that contradicted it once?”
Same energy as “global warming isn’t real because I saw snow in January”