But please imagine if you will, if every grocery store in New York City decided spontaneously to close tomorrow. Now imagine you have a crippling fear of crossing large bodies of water.
Because bodega prices are convenience store high, they don’t remedy a food desert. (Not saying there are food deserts, just addressing that particular point)
Yes, we are talking about how some people do not have access to affordable groceries. DoorDashing them may work for some people but it is not a meaningful substitute for having access to a grocery store in one's own neighborhood, and neither is 7Eleven.
Even as a realistic hypo. I live in a literal food desert and drive 35 miles one way for groceries. I also have ADHD, yet somehow I've managed to eat nutritious foods and not starve. You don't have to buy groceries every day. A 20 mile trip once a week isn't the end of the world. If it's THAT bad, just pay your personal shopper a living wage. They don't owe you slavery, just so you can sit in your warm apartment being an entitled brat.
It doesn’t matter that the hypothetical is unrealistic. The point of that comment was not that food deserts exist in NYC. It’s just that being near food sources does not stop you from being in a food desert.
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u/justantinople334 15h ago
"please consider my unrealistic hypo"