Ashley Webster of FOX Business says Atlanta’s mayor is calling the city’s first government-funded supermarket an early success, after it opened over the summer in an area long labeled a “food desert.”
Webster’s camera takes viewers into Azalea Fresh Market, a new grocery store on Atlanta’s West Side, where the pitch is simple: people need a real place to buy real food, and private retailers weren’t filling the gap.
That’s the core tension Webster lays out. If private grocery chains leave or never come in, does the city step in, or does it wait and hope a business eventually takes the risk?…