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Re:Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store by loganfrederick on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:13AM (#14642732)
tptacek understands this problem as he is/was in Chicago, which has had issues with "food deserts" where poor regions of the city do not have grocery stores within a reasonable commute. And the grocery stores in those poor areas are often overpriced for exploitive reasons.

So tptacek is correct that a farm inside a grocery store does not solve grocery affordability for the poor, because the problem is due to transportation/access, not the cost of the goods.

The bridge between these two views would maybe be if there was a solution of vertical farming that used little real estate and was able to set up a vertical farm in a poor area and had minimal real estate footprint/low rent costs.

Paper on Food Deserts in Chicago (or just google "food deserts chicago"): http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/IL-FoodDeserts-2011.pdf

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Re:Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store by gabrielcsapo on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:22AM (#14642924)
I would say if that is the case the best move forward would be to make this something you could put in a consumers house.
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Re:Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store by tptacek on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:59AM (#14646595)
How about we just build grocery stores where low-income people can reach them? Farms produce vegetables more cost-effectively than low-income people or retail outlets. This is a solved problem.

I'm not sure if you shop mostly in Whole Foods or buy individually plastic-wrapped bell peppers at Trader Joes, but go to a Mexican grocery store some time and fill a cart full of green things. Vegetables are very cheap.

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Re:Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store by passiveincomelg on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:13AM (#14643333)
Like a vending machine?
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