Edmonton aims to kibosh restrictive covenants in name of grocery access, food affordability

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Edmonton aims to kibosh restrictive covenants in name of grocery access, food affordability
Restrictive covenants are common in the grocery industry to prevent competition, but Edmonton's city council is asking the province to change the rules so food is more affordable.
#Consumer #Economy #Politics #fooddesert
https://globalnews.ca/news/11735252/edmonton-grocery-restrictive-covenant/
Edmonton aims to kibosh restrictive covenants in name of grocery access, food affordability
Restrictive covenants are common in the grocery industry to prevent competition, but Edmonton's city council is asking the province to change the rules so food is more affordable.
#Consumer #Economy #Politics #fooddesert
https://globalnews.ca/news/11735252/edmonton-grocery-restrictive-covenant/

Dark Supermarkets: Spaces Where 'Visual Seduction' for Humans Has Disappeared
Future distribution hubs no longer need to be equipped with dazzling lights or sophisticated interiors. Instead, they will be replaced by 'Dark Supermarkets'—spaces optimized for transactions between AI agents, or so-called 'Custobots.'

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@ThinkTankNotOfficial Next he'll be saying that in Gaza
#FoodDesert #VictimBlaming

익숙한 동네의 낯선 정류장에서.. #fooddesert
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The first step toward solving food deserts: Let's create a 'base camp' in
each other's hearts.
Convenience stores and delivery apps fill every corner of our cities. But have you ever realized
that to find fresh vegetables, fruits, and healthy ingredients, you often have to travel a long distance? This isn't just a lack of grocery stores; it's a structural problem in our society, clearly identified as 'Food Deserts.'.
#FoodDesert #Basecamp #FoodDesertLeadersForum
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The first step toward solving food deserts: Let’s create a ‘base camp’ in each other’s hearts.

Convenience stores and delivery apps fill every corner of our cities. But have you ever realized that to find fresh vegetables, fruits, and…

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Food Deserts 2025: The Overlooked Global Causes

Beyond the primary systemic causes, the formation of food deserts is driven by a complex interplay of often overlooked factors on a global scale. Even within a specific community, access barriers can vary dramatically based on personal circumstances. This means that in the same neighborhood, a food desert can severely impact certain individuals while leaving others unaffected. #fooddesert #re_eul
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식량 사막을 형성하는 데는 주요 원인 외에도 전 세계적으로 자주 간과되는  여러 요인들이 복합적으로 작용합니다.

예를 들어, 가족이나 이웃으로부터 고립된 노인의 경우, 이동 약자라는 신체적 제약이나 건강 문제로 인해 저렴하고 영양가 있는 식품을 구매하기 어렵습니다. 또한, 디지털 기술에 익숙하지 않아 온라인으로 식료품을 주문하는 대안을 활용하지 못하기도…

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I dont understand how meats like turkey, chicken and most cuts of pork, no matter how moist and soft they are, it always feels like you have a mouth full of cotton, I understand all the muscle and fat compositions and get that white meat is a much tighter grain that lacks natural lubrication, but dam, so here's a little dietary hiccup in my crappy world, Beef and really any Red meat I can not eat, there is a protein in it that I am allergic to, have been my whole life, when I was young it would cause the inside of my mouth to break out in a rash as I got older it causes my stomach to shut down pretty much like a horse colicking and it gets well its not good, so most of my life I have sided with ground turkey and ground pork and heavy on the carbs, lots of spaghetti I mean lots, but I am growing tired of it, Im no fan of any kind of chicken, I keep trying just no good, recently I wanted to lay off the carbs for the few things I could afford to eat this month, so i got some turkey breasts, and a couple of pork shoulders, taste wise it all came out great, texture wise makes me want to vomit and since I am trapped in poverty, I am choking it down as its all I have, fish cant stand it, pizza I could eat that all day long every day and never tire of it, but one frozen pizzas are not horrible in price but I cant afford enough to eat all month second I dont have the freezer to store that many, and honestly frozen pizzas really lack in any nutritional value, that's why for the past shit 12-14 years I have been living off of spaghetti constantly, Ragu chunky sauce and I add ground turkey and ground pork sausage, the sauce has nearly everything in it, but again eating that much over the years I grow tired, then you add the poverty and lack of ability to buy any food really and your in a nutritional hell, half of what I can afford wants to kill me if I eat it, 3/4 of what's left leaves my body repulsed by either taste or texture or both, dry beans beans period YUCK Love the smell and flavor cant handle the texture nor the bloat they give me, anyways lots of foods I simply can not handle one reason or another no matter how hard I try to handle them and what's left is not all that healthy every day and it gets old, just more of the hellish existence I deal with;

#food, #health, #nutrition, #diet, #dietary, #poverty, #fooddesert