BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)…..Having seen seven area grocery stores close in recent years – often times leaving behind a food desert in their wake, Congressman Tim Kennedy has said enough is enough.
“That’s seven neighborhoods without a store,” Kennedy said.
The sudden closing of a Save-A-Lot grocery store on Genesee Street in Buffalo’s Schiller Park neighborhood became a crystalizing moment for Kennedy who has proposed a trio of legislative bills in the House that could help reverse that trend and making it easier for supermarket chains, or independents, open new outltes…