US STATE STORES
December 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
A REPORT from an influential legislative committee in a big USA state has called on its governor to ignore standard American free marketeering and investigate whether "state grocery stores" should be established in poor neighbourhoods lacking retail facilities. Pennsylvania's state House of Representatives' Health and Human Services Committee (HHSC) released a report this month (Dec. 3) examining the shunning by major retailers of areas of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Its recommendations aimed at returning retail diversity to ...
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