Convenience store

Two computers with scanners are set up on a counter in a convenience store, surrounded by packaged snacks and rows of gum and mints.

Will automated convenience stores put South Koreans out of work?

South Korea has one of the world’s highest human-to-convenience-store ratios, but increasingly, those stores are operating without staff, instead relying on machines to allow customers to purchase goods.

Delma Yerro, 53, and her granddaughter Heavenly at their sari-sari store in Tacloban, Philippines.

After Haiyan, Filipinos try to rebuild a cherished local link in the retail chain

Finding healthy foods in a food desert

Health & Medicine

Corner stores linked to childhood obesity

Health & Medicine
The World

Food Deserts

The World

Food Deserts

Efforts are underway in New York City to bring fresh and affordable food to under-served neighborhoods.

The World

A quart of milk, a loaf of bread … and childhood obesity?

A wave of obesity blamed (at least in part) on kids eating food from local convenience stores has the Los Angeles City Council considering an unusual proposal: limiting the development of new corner stores. The Takeaway considers various opinions.

The World

Closing the Health Food Gap in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Environment

Many low-income neighborhoods in the United States lack access to fresh and affordable fruits and vegetables. In New York City, a number of programs are working to close the food gap by bringing healthy foods close to home. On Living on Earth.