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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by anothergoogler on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:47PM (#17881481)
re: Whole Foods, I've never heard of a place that was a food desert but for Whole Foods. You should take your business somewhere else if you don't want Amazon to have data on your grocery purchases.
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by PNWChris on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:57PM (#17881545)
Funny anecdote, my fiance used to live in midtown Detroit near the Whole Foods. At the time the groceries situation was worse, it was more-or-less a food desert other than that Whole Foods [0].

I don't know how folks who can't afford a car would get groceries (an hour round trip on the bus, I guess), but that can be said about nearly everything in Michigan. The whole wealth bootstrapping problem is really unsolved out there, you can't get started on anything without like $5k for a car and car-related expenses.

[0]: https://www.google.com/maps/search/midtown+detroit+groceries...

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