[rsynnott]

Sidenote: Has there been serious research into _why_ these 'food deserts' happen (or at least their urban form; the rural version seems more explicable), and/or why they seem to happen in the US more than in other developed countries, does anyone know? On the face of it, even as a fairly market-sceptical person, this is one that I would kind of expect the invisible hand to deal with.

[Izkata]

> On the face of it, even as a fairly market-sceptical person, this is one that I would kind of expect the invisible hand to deal with.

This is more one of the causes: Too much theft so they cut their losses.

[captn3m0]

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/634-food-deserts/

99pi has a nice podcast on food deserts. It puts the blame on the decision from the FTC to stop enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act, and only use consumer prices as the metric for antitrust rulings.