Oasis in Grocery Deserts
EATS as the Oasis in Grocery Deserts
Definition: Grocery desert is distant access to a supermarket.
Supermarket Chains continue to abandon less prosperous & perceived dangerous areas
EATS will provide healthy food, training, jobs, transportation, and business growth for underserved at-risk neighborhoods
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EATS Solution is Created out of Need, Timing, and Cost Concern of Delaying Solutions
If better nutrition improves health and lowers cost of care and food,
HOW DO WE GET THERE?
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Fastest growing segment of GROCERY Spending is
Government SNAP-Food Stamp-WIC-LINK
Need Escalated from 32 million
to 47 million in only 5 years