Delivery in the Desert

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by Jackie Scanapico0 views·Updated Jun 6, 2021
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  1. simply put a food desert is an area that is
  2. lacking affordable fresh food below.
  3. You can read the U.
  4. S. D.
  5. Of a definition on what a food desert is, how
  6. it helps why delivery groceries.
  7. Families want to provide a healthy dinner.
  8. But they have limited options such as not having a
  9. car or demanding jobs with grocery delivery services.
  10. This can help both of those things as someone else
  11. will have a car and provide transportation of the groceries
  12. to their house and they can do it whenever working
  13. around their busy schedules.
  14. This is a map of the areas in which you
  15. can get to a grocery store within walking distance or
  16. an area where you can get to a grocery store
  17. within driving distance.
  18. The white shows the availability of grocery stores as you
  19. can see when you're walking.
  20. There is a lot less white so a lot less
  21. availability of grocery stores when versus when you're driving.
  22. There is a lot more the plan, families with food
  23. stamps or wick will be connected to a local walmart
  24. delivery service.
  25. Healthy fresh foods will be available to buy.
  26. Families will buy healthier foods now that they are available
  27. available. Switching away from the processed foods.
  28. Wal mart already has a grocery delivery service, adding WIC
  29. and food stamps as a former payments will help family
  30. in food deserts.
  31. Fresh affordable foods which were once hard to find and
  32. unavailable. Made accessible.
  33. This is very important because obesity rates rise in areas
  34. where fresh and affordable foods are not found.
  35. If you don't have a fresh and affordable foods, you
  36. would choose processed foods which are high in excess calories,
  37. trans fats and processed sugars.
  38. Sarah families will choose the healthier options over processed foods.
  39. This will help with obesity in Children who will deliver
  40. the truth is, there are molecular resurfaces available.
  41. I can fulfill this need walmart has the opportunity to
  42. set themselves apart from the rest of the competition.
  43. In 2015, the revenue of food delivery services was $8.6
  44. billion. This rose to $26.5 billion in 2020.
  45. Obviously this is a new and exciting technology which is
  46. delivery services that can expand more than just irregular takeout.
  47. Like we see with baby formula and government partnership there,
  48. this will also have an opportunity to have government partnership
  49. here. You can have yeah, you can have a company
  50. partner with the government in order to receive subsidies and
  51. some sort of funding from the government in order to
  52. help them deliver areas that may be harder to reach,
  53. such as food deserts, how nutrition plays a role, quality
  54. and price.
  55. There may be supermarkets close.
  56. But do they have healthy foods?
  57. Those that I'm talking about here are bodegas or corner
  58. stores such as your local CVS or a store that
  59. has kind of a little bit of everything on the
  60. corner. These are the stories that we find apples wrapped
  61. in Saran wrap, that maybe $3 each or $2 each,
  62. which is a lot more than the grocery store price.
  63. You can have processed foods such as mac and cheese
  64. here, but you don't really have your deli selection or
  65. your fresh food and vegetables.
  66. These places can also have bananas that are multiple days
  67. old and jacked up at a higher price.
  68. Well, it is not convenient to get any of these
  69. foods. They may be the closest options for people to
  70. have when you have a $3 apple next to a
  71. family sized box of mac and cheese for $2.
  72. There is slightly more incentive, I say sarcastically to buy
  73. that mac and cheese box because I would feel a
  74. lot more people.
  75. Therefore, it's hard for families to make the decisions to
  76. get healthier foods if the resources are just not fair
  77. and their hands are tied behind their back and want
  78. to buy, especially if they have to feed multiple people.
  79. Stores. And high income neighborhoods have four more healthy foods.
  80. On average, i.
  81. e. more healthy foods and foods.
  82. There's this area, there's a lack of healthy foods so
  83. therefore people cannot buy them even if they wanted to
  84. just because their local grocery store does not have them
  85. involved or even their corner store.
  86. In 1996.2% of adults were obese.
  87. Should I won?
  88. Five are obese obesity is the main problem in the
  89. us. And I feel that one of the places that
  90. we can help people the most is by getting affordable
  91. healthy foods to those in food deserts in order to
  92. combat this obesity problem that we are seeing.
  93. I feel that if given the opportunity people will choose
  94. healthier food options and not the process ones.
  95. I feel many of times people believe that those in
  96. low income areas choose processed foods, but I just feel
  97. that they weren't given the opportunity or the choice to
  98. do so.
  99. Here we have my reference page and feel free to
  100. read my cover letter as well.
  101. Thank you.