Though roughly two dozen cities have appointed food policy directors at the local level, an estimated 53.6 million people still live outside an easy walk or drive to a full-service supermarket.
Tops Markets is set to reopen its Jefferson Avenue store Friday morning, just over two months after a racially motivated mass shooting took place there. In the meantime, grassroots efforts are underway in an attempt to convince one of its competitors to consider building an East Buffalo store to help address an existing food desert.