Delivery Killed the Food Desert. Politicians Didn't Notice.
Wilson | 3:36 PM on July 27, 2026 AP Photo/George Walker IV On July 25, 2026, seven Save A Lot stores closed on Chicago’s South and West Sides. In 2022, the city gave the operator, Yellow Banana, $13.5 million in taxpayer money to renovate and reopen them in neighborhoods labeled “food deserts.” Yellow Banana agreed to keep the stores open for 10 years. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Four years later, the stores are gone.
- ▪Wilson | 3:36 PM on July 27, 2026 AP Photo/George Walker IV On July 25, 2026, seven Save A Lot stores closed on Chicago’s South and West Sides.
- ▪In 2022, the city gave the operator, Yellow Banana, $13.5 million in taxpayer money to renovate and reopen them in neighborhoods labeled “food deserts.” Yellow Banana agreed to keep the stores open for 10 years.
- ▪Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Four years later, the stores are gone.
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Delivery Killed the Food Desert. Politicians Didn't Notice. Jamie K. Wilson | 3:36 PM on July 27, 2026 AP Photo/George Walker IV On July 25, 2026, seven Save A Lot stores closed on Chicago’s South and West Sides. These were not ordinary stores. In 2022, the city gave the operator, Yellow Banana, $13.5 million in taxpayer money to renovate and reopen them in neighborhoods labeled “food deserts.” Yellow Banana agreed to keep the stores open for 10 years. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Four years later, the stores are gone.
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