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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"corner stores"”.
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Corner Culture: Corner Stores in the Black Pearl Neighborhood of New Orleans
<p>The corner store represents a significant part of New Orleans' history and neighborhoods. From essential grocery providers to bars and restaurants full of local character, these buildings have held a number of roles in the community. These roles have changed in response to development patterns, …
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Keeping mom and pop fresh : strategies for getting produce into corner stores
… disparities and diet-related disease. Healthy corner store conversions are a promising strategy to address issues of food access. To be successful, conversion programs must address the challenges of sourcing and selling produce. As a perishable product, produce requires store owner to possess …
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Food access in local food retail stores: a mixed method approach
… and instead have more access to convenience stores that sell low-quality, higher priced and unhealthy food items. This thesis examines how store managers and owners actively shape local food environments by providing different types of foods at their stores located in different neighborhoods. …
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Between the Lines : A Farm to Table Community
… a community solely composed of gas stations and corner stores? How does the constant presence of these establishments, which primarily offer packaged and unhealthy food options, affect the health of the residents? Food deserts are typically defined as urban areas where it is challenging to access …
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Examining food acquisition behaviors and diet quality in adults
… including from food-at-home retailers (grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and corner stores), from food-away-from-home establishments (fast food places and restaurants) or from food obtained for free (food pantries). Food is then brought into the home food environment where preparation may occur. …
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Black Food Geographies and the Politics of Resistance in the Brick City. An Intersectional Analysis of Black Food Provisioning Practices, Food Access, and Racial Food Inequities in Newark, New Jersey from 1666 – 2020
… but with an over-abundance of small bodegas and corner stores offering less healthy food items at consistently higher prices. However, the ethnographic analysis of Black food geographies rendered the stressed the central role of economic barriers to a consistently healthy diet and not physical …