Wal-Mart's shutdown creates new food deserts
Story Date: 1/28/2016

 

Source: Mike Lucas and Mike Schneider, WRAL, 1/27/16

Wal-Mart's decision to shutter 154 stores across the country means that, starting Thursday, residents without cars in a neighborhood near a historically black college outside Birmingham, Alabama, will have to cross dangerous roadways on foot to get fresh produce and meat. 

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