[ExI] powerful image

[William Flynn Wallace]

Food deserts are a real problem in the MS delta.  Hospitals and grocery
stores can't make any money there (theft is always a problem with poor
people - of any color, if I have to add that).   bill w  (Spike,
did you forget to send me a context for that video of blacks attacking
whites?)

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:18 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of SR Ballard via
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> >...Addition of money allows for grocery delivery. If something like Shipt
> could accept food stamps + waive delivery fee (bill govt instead) then I
> think that whole issue would be basically solved... SR
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> I can think of a couple of obvious problems SR.  If the grocery store is at
> risk, the delivery truck is more at risk.  Imagine you are insuring that
> delivery.  What do you charge to underwrite that activity?  Suppose you
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> the government and they can't pay?  Both the city of Chicago and the state
> of Illinois are facing huge revenue shortfalls and the Fed will likely not
> pay for that delivery.  The delivery company would attach an additional
> delivery charge to cover the risk they wouldn't be paid and the risk they
> don't get their truck back, or it comes back damaged.
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> So... that delivery fee must be tacked on.  For groceries we already know
> that fee is huge, which is why we have grocery stores to start with: a lot
> of mass and bulk, making it incompatible with point to point delivery.  You
> can't order a watermelon on Amazon Fresh.  It would cost 30 bucks, if you
> are willing to wait three weeks for whatever is left of it.
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> I could imagine some kind of outdoor produce market of some kind, where
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> could be bought in bulk and distributed in tents.  They can be set up on
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> sites where grocery stores were before the fires.  Those could work if they
> lean away from factory food, the kind most of us eat, but rather sell raw
> produce in bulk, a sack of potatoes, a sack of rice, sacks of beans, a 20
> pound hunk of pork, that sorta thing.
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> It would be retro in a way, but it could sustain the locals for the next
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> to five years as these grocery chains re-establish themselves, if they do.
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> I wouldn't want to be the mayor of Chicago today.
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