Food desert
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A food desert is an area that has limited access to affordable, fresh, healthy, and nutritious food. Food deserts are commonly paired with food swamps, which lack grocery stores and instead have conve
Burlingame, Kansas (pictured) is an example of a food desert. All three preexisting grocery stores in Burlingame closed, and the closest grocery store is over 40 km (25 mi) away in Topeka, Kansas.
A convenience store in Boston. Most of the food visible is relatively imperishable: dried, processed, and tinned products.
Hurricane Ian caused some damage to the ceiling of a Walmart store.
Processed foods at a grocery store in Houston, Texas
Convenience store
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A convenience store is a small retail store that stocks a range of everyday items such as convenience food, groceries, beverages, tobacco products, lottery tickets, over-the-counter drugs, toiletries,
Food desert
…access to affordable, fresh, healthy, and nutritious food. Food deserts are commonly paired with food swamps, which lack grocery stores and instead have convenience stores or fast food. In contrast, an area with greater access to grocers or farmers' markets with fresh foods may be called a food oasis. Food deserts are…
Interior of a Japanese 7-Eleven convenience store (2014)
A typical bodega in New York City (2019)
Assortment of energy drinks displayed in a convenience store in Bangkok, Thailand (2018)
Interior of a Super Sheetz in Altoona, Pennsylvania (2009)