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Episode: With no supermarket for residents of Atlantic City, mobile groceries bring food and produce to communities in need
Description: In the seaside resort of Atlantic City, New Jersey, where $5 billion worth of in-person and online gambling gets done each year, there still is not a supermarket.
A state agency and two hospital systems are sending mobile grocery stores into poor areas of the city to bring residents access to fresh meat and produce, at below-market rates.
Virtua Health’s “Eat Well” program aims to bring high-quality food and fresh produce to economically deprived areas that lack meaningful access to healthy food.
Delorese Butley-Whaley, 62, was delighted to board the bus to buy a half gallon of milk and a loaf of bre...