This week's Talking Headways episode features Stacy Mitchell discussing her Atlantic article, "The Great Grocery Squeeze," focusing on the broader societal issues stemming from deregulation and zoning laws. The conversation highlights how the dominance of big box stores, particularly Walmart, exacerbates risk for consumers who must drive longer distances for shopping, leading to a culture of sprawl. Mitchell emphasizes that car-centric infrastructure disadvantages local businesses and changes consumer behaviors, favoring large national retailers. The discussion underscores the urgent need to reconsider urban planning and its implications for community health and local economies.
When you're forced to drive more, you create more risk for yourself. So making people go to these big box stores increases people's risk.
If you create a landscape that's oriented towards cars, you create a landscape that works very well and favors large national retailers at the expense of local businesses.
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