7AM: Grocery Store Closures, Food Apartheid and Milwaukee’s North Side (Hour 1)
Bailey and Dame spent the hour digging into grocery store closures in Milwaukee and questioning the explanations often given for why stores leave predominantly Black neighborhoods. What began as a light conversation about grocery shopping habits quickly turned into a deeper discussion about access, equity, and whether theft is being used as a convenient excuse. Using new data that suggested theft had actually declined at some shuttered locations, they challenged the idea that crime alone is driving these closures and raised the broader concept of “food apartheid,” arguing that reduced access…
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