In doing this challenge, I am not only committing to
experience how it feels to be restricted in the amount or types of items I can
afford, but also taking into consideration if I lived in different area of the
city or even in East St. Louis, Illinois.
Living in South St. Louis City, we have an Aldi at the end
of our street that we can walk to every week or two, a Shop n’ Save and 2
Schnuck’s stores all within a 5 minute drive or less. There are also multiple bus routes that could
take us to where we want to go. But,
what if we didn’t have stores within walking distance and had no means of
transportation to even get to the grocery store? This is too often a reality for those not
only living in rural areas, but also within areas like St. Louis as well.
Chris brought up a good point. We are lucky to have access to an Aldi, a
store that tends to have lower prices than Shop n’ Save and Schnuck’s due to
lower overhead cost and we would have been able to buy even less food with our
food stamp benefits at another grocery store.
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