Many Miami Valley neighborhoods have struggled to find full-service grocery stores for several years, and one organization has decided to address the need in West Dayton.
HomeFull, a well-known social service agency, is building its own grocery store on Gettysburg Avenue near Germantown Pike.
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People in a west Dayton neighborhood off Gettysburg Ave will finally have access to a full-service grocery store once the 50,000 square foot building that will house a grocery store is finished being built.
News Center 7′s Mike Campbell went on a tour inside the under-construction grocery store, along with a HomeFull director.
The grocery store, while not rivaling the big box grocery stores, will have everything shoppers need for healthy and balanced meals.
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“When there is holes that need to be filled for the people we serve, here, it’s a food desert,” HomeFull’s CEO Tina Patterson said.