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Can Everyone Eat Climate-Friendly? I Shopped at the Dollar Store to Find Out.
(www.yesmagazine.org)
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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I don't find the $tore is really that cheap. They have smaller sizes in most cases for food items. Prob better off at a big store and getting bulk frozen stuff.
This highlights part of the problem of how expensive it is to be poor. When youre living paycheck to paycheck, the thought of buying anything in bulk can be so daunting. Sure, you can get a months worth of food at Costco for $100, but when there's $50 left in your bank account, $30 at the dollar store will get you through until the next paycheck, then the cycle repeats...
and we’re right back to the Vimes’ Boots Theory
They mention in the article that they chose to use dollar stores to demonstrate the challenge of eating well in food deserts
And this sentence in the conclusion is pretty spot-on:
"Targeted policy to expand food access ... will be necessary for the Lancet climate food plan to become effective."