Dollar General locates stores closer than grocery stores to push convenience purchases and undercut local grocers. Josh, a hospital worker, exemplifies how this traps people on a hamster wheel of work and quick shopping. The speaker urges communities to drive the extra 10 minutes to full grocery stores instead.
What is their strategy to create a place where this is so convenient, even though you know it's not good for you, it's so convenient, you do it anyway. We, as citizens in our community, we have to demand better. And if that means that you need to drive an extra 10 minutes to get to the real grocery store, do it. Because the mom and pop grocery stores, they get run out of business by Dollar General. That's why they put it close. They put it two miles closer than going some down the street. And that's their strategy. That is their strategy to create a place where this is so convenient, even though you know it's not good for you, it's so convenient, you do it anyway. Right. We have to switch our mindset. It's again, how Josh was talking. He was on the hamster wheel. He was so busy, nose to the grindstone, working at the hospital, doing all these surgeries, he didn't have time to even look up and realize how bad it was for him.
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