But according to you most of DC lives in Brightwood at the very corner of DC 5 blocks away from Maryland?

Okay, gurl. 🤨

Do you know how to read a map? Most cartographers judge accessibility by the center of the center and by ease of transportation. That’s why the Metro Center is near the CENTER of the city and not Fort Totten.

The only projection is from you. You somehow offended over my comment about Fort Totten and your insecurity with living in that area prompted you to make a irrelevant comment.

Those aren’t affordable either, honey bun.

Yes I agree. There IS a lot of idiocy and ignorance showing here on top of the usual white privilege you got going on there.

You think Giant and Harris Teeter is affordable food? Trader Joe’s?!

Okay, that’s alot of white privilege showing…

I find it ironic that because Wal-Mart is close to YOU it must be equally accessible to everyone else. It’s not. It’s literally in the upper most corner of the city and 3 miles from the center of the city. It would be quicker for someone at the center of DC to go to Arlington depending on the time of day.

I have a Whole Foods around the corner from me. If it was the only grocery store in DC that somehow sold affordable food, I wouldn’t be narcissistic enough to assume it’s fair distance to everyone else.

And Giant and Safeway are NOT cheap groceries.

You obviously have never been poor and it shows.

I didn’t say it was far for low-income families. I said it was far for most of DC residents.

Again, missing the point. Wal-Mart shouldn’t be the only source of affordable groceries.

I always confuse the H St location with Georgia Ave, oh well.

I’m judging accessibility of groceries from the center of the city and relative cost of transportation. Fort Totten may be close to you but for a majority of the city it’s as close to them as it’s close to Navy Yard or Anacostia.

Fort Totten’s Walmart is basically in Maryland. It’s like less then a quarter of a mile from the state line. That’s why it’s the very last stop in DC on the Yellow Line.

From Downtown DC, that’s a half hour drive if there’s no traffic. Which is never.

Metro from Downtown isn’t any better at 25-35 mins depending delays and wait time.

God knows how long the bus would take.

Good luck convincing George Washington students or folks in SW/SE to hike all the way up there.

That’s like telling people in Manhattan to go shop for food in Queens or Hoboken, NJ.

I’m blessed to live one block from a Whole Foods and I’m even more blessed to be able to afford it but people who are poor (and usually of color) have to pay 💰 in Metro/gas/Uber/time off just to get some damn affordable food.

BUT this is all besides the point. Wal-Mart should not be the sole source of affordable food for lower income families in the nation’s capital besides the odd McDonald’s or the odd 7-11.

Why are there 5 Whole Foods in the city spread out throughout the city and easily accessible for most residents and only 3 Wal-Marts where 1 is a hop skip away from the state line?

Gentrification and lack of incentive for small business owners to open up anything that doesn’t attract high income customers.

I also strongly suspect that NIMBYISM is also at play when it comes to approving liquor licenses or commercial real estate. People here are smart enough to realize that 7-11, McDonald’s or any cheap food attracts the ‘wrong’ type of people to their neighborhood.

DC is a food desert.

NYC has mom and pop restaurants and small boutique grocery stores. Hell there’s $1 pizza/enchilada/taco/etc every other block.

You can’t find that in DC. The number of fast food restaurants are dwindling and outside the sole Wal-Mart in DC (I don’t count the one all the way in Ft. Totten) there’s no source for cheap groceries either.

Everything here is a $25 deconstructed burger or a Whole Foods with a $7 bottle of almond milk.

I don’t know how anyone making below $50k in this city even survive if they live in the District.