ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.– In this seaside resort, where $5 billion worth of in-person and online betting gets done each year, there still is not a grocery store.
Individuals who reside in Atlantic City should either repel the island to a mainland shop, take public transport– whose expense gnaws at the quantity left for food– or store in expensive, badly equipped corner shops in their own city.
A much-touted, greatly subsidized strategy to develop what would be the city’s very first grocery store in almost 20 years broke down previously this year. Now, the state and a healthcare facility system are sending out a modified school bus packed with fresh food offered for purchase into the city as a short-lived option.
Virtua Health brought a customized transit bus to a bad community in Atlantic City on Friday as part of its “Eat Well” program, moneyed by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
The program intends to bring high quality food and fresh fruit and vegetables to financially denied locations that do not have significant access to healthy food. Atlantic City is 2nd on the list of 50 New Jersey neighborhoods created as “food deserts” due to absence of access to such food.