Subsidized Grocery Stores
Some cities are now offering a bevy of tax incentives and subsidies to grocery stores willing to locate themselves in putatively underserved areas.In many cases, these policies are thinly veiled behavior-modification schemes or sweetheart subsidies for connected businesses.
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