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 · 4h 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 · 4h ago
I'm going to guess that the ethos at Dollar General will prevent this from happening.
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.
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.