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Posted by jcarterwil 15 hours ago

The biggest health transformation in US history might start at Dollar General?(foodishealth.substack.com)
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jcarterwil 15 hours ago|
Interesting analysis of how existing retail infrastructure in "food deserts" might be the key to reversing chronic disease at scale. The counterintuitive insight: the same distribution networks that created the problem have the infrastructure advantages to solve it, but only now are market incentives aligning. Key points:

19,000+ strategically located stores Existing supply chain relationships Customer acquisition costs near zero Market timing around food-as-medicine trends

Worth reading for the systems thinking around how transformation actually happens vs. how we think it should happen.

discoutdynamite 15 hours ago||
For some further reading on health food starting from the land:

The One Straw Revolution

Everything I Want To Do is Illegal

The biggest reason this wont happen without an equal political collapse, is that the likes of Kraft-Heinz so dutifully mentioned here, have perfected "food control." Regulatory capture means this kind of changeover is simply illegal in too many distinct ways.

bediger4000 15 hours ago|
I'm going to guess that the ethos at Dollar General will prevent this from happening.