Is the Northern Territory a 'food desert', then? There are some neighborhoods in USAian cities where you can't find a grocery that carries healthy food like fresh produce -- literally, the only food marts in some areas are corner stores that carry only pre-packaged and highly processed food.
For instance, locally there was some talk about requiring a supermarket be as part of the new baseball stadium complex, just so that the depressed area it was going into could get a supermarket. I'm not sure if that actually wound up being part of the deal though, because I don't follow baseball.
And in the extremely rural areas, it's not much better. I was in Nebraska about 10 years ago for almost a month, and the local grocery (for a town of 400) only got produce on Tuesdays -- the local agriculture was *cattle* ranching and maize farming, and almost nothing else.
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For instance, locally there was some talk about requiring a supermarket be as part of the new baseball stadium complex, just so that the depressed area it was going into could get a supermarket. I'm not sure if that actually wound up being part of the deal though, because I don't follow baseball.
And in the extremely rural areas, it's not much better. I was in Nebraska about 10 years ago for almost a month, and the local grocery (for a town of 400) only got produce on Tuesdays -- the local agriculture was *cattle* ranching and maize farming, and almost nothing else.