A Food Desert’s Supermarket Shuttle

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After three major supermarkets closed in Flint, Michigan, the city’s Mass Transportation Authority created a special bus line to help people access fresh food.
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The Shopper Bus | Notes From All Over
Director: Zackary Canepari
Producer: Zackary Canepari
Editor: Lindsey Phillips

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26 окт 2015

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@suzanw9314 4 года назад

Lovely busdriver what a nice guy, bless him

@LAVirgo67 4 года назад

This is a great idea. The only problem is that people may do their shopping at the beginning of the month. People may have worked out a ride system among friends and family. They don't want to become dependent on a bus that may not be there next year. It's a reality.

@zoeh3916 3 года назад

That's very true, I think that bus may be more of an option to fall back onto more than a regular thing. It seems like a valuable community resource :)

@Preservestlandry 3 года назад

A month of groceries, or even a week, on a bus, doesn't sound practical.

@roxannerodriguez7075 4 года назад

I admire just how much this bus driver cares for the people he serves. ❤ He seems to understand empathy on a deep level. He isn't sympathetic; he doesn't feel 'sorry' for them. (They don't need that.) This feels more like he's been in their same shoes. Or maybe someone made an impact on him when he was a little boy; so his heart is totally, 100% in! And for all the right reasons. God bless him. ❤

@paulmattern3047 6 месяцев назад

Joe is an absolute treasure to the MTA.

@virginialpinon748 4 года назад

I c now how widespread this problem is..my mom used say..."the rich get richer..the poor get poorer."

@henryderymacneil1707 4 года назад

my mom says that too haha

@stephaniejones4194 4 года назад

Virginia L Pinon My mom use to tell me that all the time, it’s so true, it’s sad.

@Panbaneesha 4 года назад

That's exactly what my parents mean when they say "Der Teufel scheißt immer auf den größten Haufen" (the devil always shits on the biggest pile).

@canaldofred2366 3 года назад

Actually both are getting richer, but the rich are getting richer faster. I don't see this as a problem at all, I mean, everyone winns

@alexiswritingvideos 3 года назад

@@canaldofred2366 You could not be more wrong.

@jennywu73 4 года назад

I like this guy. Our community needs more people like him.

@judyshanley9923 8 лет назад

Great idea MTA! Food Deserts hurt communities -- thank you for your innovation!

@CulinaryGuide 4 года назад

Unfortunately, it is a temporary solution that contributes to another major economic problem. These people's money leaves their community immediately. It doesn't have time to exchange hands within their own community.

@Nirrrina 4 года назад

They should add some runs at different times to food pantries. Especially the mid to the end of the month. Another could be various pharmacies. Maybe even a farmers market. Did you know that if you have food stamps you can double them at a farmers market. So instead of $20 you get $40.

@1beblazin 4 года назад

Is that everywhere or just that state?

@kevinwasilewski9754 2 года назад

I think the point of this is that there's no point to add more runs or stops because no one would use them either

@dcg590 Год назад

Most do t want fruit and veggies. Cmon

@PeytonCarpen 4 года назад

This feels so dystopian, but it’s anything but that.

@taniafilipafernandes6662 4 года назад

Here in Portugal 🇵🇹, in some small villages, where the closest supermarket is 20 OR 30 kilometers away (16 OR 25 miles), there are some vans adapted as a market, or bakery, or butcher, even hairdresser... Why dont they do the same there?

@redcase8972 4 года назад

You need a vendor license in the U.S. Still a good idea. ☺

@anahitaariadne 4 года назад

In another clip I heard that the crime rate in these areas is usually higher, that's why people don't dare to open a supermarket there. Plus, these areas are so poor that it doesn't make sense to go there for a company. Anyway, it's a terrible situation

@kevinwasilewski9754 2 года назад

because you would still only have the same tiny percentage of people with any motivation to use them. The people remaining in these neighborhoods need the food brought to their homes free-of-charge, taken into their house, cut up into small bites and actually placed right into their mouths, and they still might not swallow it on their own.

@thucydides01984 4 года назад

The stop is one walmart? How about a bunch of commercial stops? Run promotions. Get stores to contribute. Let them give out coupons.

@Nirrrina 4 года назад

They should add various pharmacies too.

@LazlowUK 4 года назад

Would buy this driver a coffee and a bagel.

@RuRaynor 4 года назад

Part of the problem here has got to be the population density. Look how spread out everything is. If you're not growing food, you don't need to live on a big lot. If these people lived in denser neighbourhoods the grocery stores would have a larger customer base and people could walk to buy groceries. The America suburb is a failure that keeps people locked in poverty- gotta have a car. Educate people on how to use the land they're surrounded by. Let's feed ourselves again.

@fauxmanchu8094 4 года назад

Ru made So true. I was in the US two months ago on my second US trip and everything is so spread out it can be alienating and lonely. I love America though and it is a beautiful country. There are many good things about it. I'll definitely return.

@dcg590 Год назад

They don’t want to put any effort into it. They can google how to grow food as it is, they still don’t

@shahlioness1972 4 года назад

I wonder if this service is still available?

@shainas7296 4 года назад

I think that's awesome that they are trying to help people access fresh food. But I have so many questions seeing that the shuttle isn't working. Like, is the shuttle free? How long on average does it take to get to the markets? Is it easy to actually get to the shuttle or do people have to transfer to get to get to the shuttle or do most people walk to get to the bus? I think they should do a door-to-door survey and see what's up and make the necessary adjustments.

@virginialpinon748 4 года назад

We have a similar bus in Cleve. Free..run by an organization u get a list early mo telling u destinations on which days. It's a blessing. Other door-to'door buses charge . It's cheap but some of us cant afford more than once a mo. Many in bldg where I live have no one. We depend lots on food banks too. We finally got a mkt but it's too hi we cant afford. In an emergency only

@pumpkincafe3486 4 года назад

This was fabulous guys ... so well produced! It's now 2020 ... please could you film an update ... hopefully longer in length, this was fascinating. LONDON UK

@hit3234847583 4 года назад

Just imagine if they didn’t have this how many people you would be seeing walking along side highways my county just started having a public bus and I’ve noticed it’s taken a lot of people off of walking the streets and highways it’s 3 days a week but if a lot of people demand and use it they could be running buses 5 days a week

@rickpaulson6583 4 года назад

Its so that to see the decline of Michigan, Flint .. wonder if the bus still is running? Have not been to flint for more then 30 years..

@rickpaulson6583 4 года назад

Oh dear 🤦‍♂️ sad - what was i thinking..

@anahitaariadne 4 года назад

God bless this lovely man 🙏🏼

@edwardmaxwell3951 4 года назад

A solution that benefits the Demand Class and the Supply Class will always lead to progress. Well done!

@SuperFosterMom 4 года назад

Why aren’t people using the bus

@annjean8709 4 года назад

Exactly!

@carrieannewatkins2958 4 года назад

Any idea what happened to the lovely, bus driver?

@deedeejackson8244 Год назад

Wish we had the shopper bus in our city / Baltimore, MD

@Carlos31416 4 года назад

What a positive man ! That's, I guess, the kind of driver people in those neighborhoods need... I'm shocked by such a terrible poverty, by the way people are isolated too. It strikes me, on the other side, that those who put that transport program into place, still have no clue about why people don't use it fully 🔬

@robertlimestone6248 3 года назад

I am sure there are no beer, wine and liquor deserts. What is not mentioned is the crime, looting, and violence that forced stores to close.

@pianoman551000 2 года назад

I live outside of Flint, where this was filmed. Flint is nothing but empty boarded up houses. It's just horrible. You're right, Robert! No company wants to invest in poor, crime-ridden city! However, there's plenty of small corner stores that sell liquor, cigs, lottery and plenty of junk food.

@AP-jl2lv 4 года назад

an absolute shame this video is 4 years old and only has 27.5k views.

@libertyann439 4 года назад

Sad it's not working.

@ChaChaOnlineUS 4 года назад

It’s sad that more people don’t take greater advantage of this. Living in a food dessert area has a great impact on life expectancy Andover all health.

@michaelwojcicki3624 3 года назад

If crime is high in an area, good chance that areas is a food desert.

@rommymadcat7163 4 года назад

So sad to see this in a supposed wealthy country.

@LAVirgo67 4 года назад

This is a lie. There are only a wealthy few. The rest struggle.

@rommymadcat7163 4 года назад

@@LAVirgo67 sadly,like most places these days.

@wc2512 4 года назад

This service will not last long - the demand is not there.

@n8glore681 4 года назад

Still running according to the MTA Flint website more than four years after this video was uploaded.

@team69racing11 4 года назад

Have Faith!! Detroit is America!! It will rise againz!! God bless Detroit!!

@Kyle-sr6jm Год назад

Supermarket Shuttle = Shoplifter Shuttle If the community is going to organize, do a food co-op. Get veggies and fruit at wholesale.

@bhavishya823 3 года назад

In india people sell fruits and vegetables on push carts and you can buy most of them right in front of you're house

@bigspoon7984 5 лет назад

Good job Flint - with the food desert and all...since we are still in a desert - how is our water?

@DaneIbsen 2 года назад

My class really just made me watch a 7 minute video about a bus. I still don’t know what the point of this video is 😂

@truffaut650truffaut6 4 года назад

Why does almost nobody go with this shopper bus?

@Maki-00 4 года назад

arman rezaee Walmart is probably the only "grocery store" in the area.

@amymeanor8879 4 года назад

Has a real good attitude

@amymeanor8879 4 года назад

Not many people are as postive

@hamasaken 4 года назад

kinda looks bad when the buss is absolutley empty

@juanitadudley4788 4 года назад

If the situation is so bad, why don't more people use the bus?!? He said they went to great lengths to publicize it.

@justacutie5201 4 года назад

Then the high school closed 👀🧐😠

@glory2yeshua309 4 года назад

Systemic racism. This is all over the country. Middle class and affluent communities are thriving with health food/grocery stores, farmer’s markets with little fast food & liquor stores. Meanwhile, lower income communities have a corner store on every other corner, 1 grocery store that’s about 45 minutes- 1 hour away on the bus, and a plethora of fast food eateries. If you don’t have access to quality foods, your quality of health is affected which ultimately affects your quality of life (mind,body & spirit). Don’t think for a second that the people at the top are not aware of this.

@kelleyannethomas5372 4 года назад

Then isn't this all the more reason for low income communities to take advantage of a bus service like this? So how come they don't utilize this service? Do they WANT to eat junk food? Gee, I wish that there was a bus like this where I live! I have to order groceries via apps & do you know how expensive that is? ☹ If this bus was in my neighborhood, I would be on it EVERY weekend!

@kem772 4 года назад

I saw a recent video like this the other day Two ladies were interviewed, both went to the grocery store and bought crap Certain people do what they want, no matter how much you help them

@mickdavis2385 4 года назад

Rubbish. A lot of the grocery stores closed down because they got tired of getting robbed. They have to literally put up bulletproof glass on every isle. But keep blaming it on "racism". lol

@sevenman9672 4 года назад

The middle class and affluent are races now? Goodness me.

@i-3307 4 года назад

Seems like no one's interested in the shopper bus

@juanitadudley4788 4 года назад

Right! If people don't take the bus, why would a grocery set up shop there? People talk about grocery stores as if they are evil for not opening up or shutting down in certain areas. But, in this specific case, it seems people are not interested.

@richbright540 4 года назад

Everyone you know! Please shout out!! We've had enough of your corporate song! We the people make this community for sure! Kicking Corporation out the freakin door

@amymeanor8879 4 года назад

Hes such a nice guy tho for sure😁😎😚😓😝😘

@wendygold8527 4 года назад

Why not put food on the bus? Just sayin

@Wally710 4 года назад

We'll come back to this video in 5 years after the legalization of cannabis has boomed Michigans economy.

@a4yster 4 года назад

Same thing in Vorkuta, Russia. As coal mines closed, the city became depressive. You can't put your eggs in one basket, y'all. You can't. It ain't about rich or poor. It's about relying on more than one source of income. You ain't crossing a bridge with one pylon. It won't hold.

@alphonsemichaelgeegiardell3088 4 года назад

Too bad the fools in certain neighborhoods continue to shoplift, loot and burn any grocery store that opens there. This creates Food Deserts and those are bad.

@loyp4328 4 года назад

Looks like a waste of diesel sadly

@kevinwasilewski9754 2 года назад

driver: "I don't see the negativity". He's right. Its because the people getting on the bus are actually moving around and trying to do something. It's the other 97% of the neighborhood that is living in a hellscape.

@monetizeyoutube6846 4 года назад

Why nobody grow their own food in the backyard...is there any strange law enacted by rich corporations.

@lukekrause5005 4 года назад

The two reasons people don't do that is because one, most people lack the amount of land needed to grow the amount of food that would actually feed them and their family. The second reason is most people don't even know how to grow food which is on them but yea.

@alek488 4 года назад

My family has a garden and it saves us money and gives us fresh produce, yum!

@c.d.9035 4 года назад

I live in a similar area and grow lots of food for half the year, but it's too cold the rest of the time. Michigan is covered with snow half the year. Most cities in the US also have strict laws about raising animals, so growing your own food is limited to vegetables and a few hardy fruits.

@maryshaffer8474 4 года назад

At least it was a Jewish Deli in a good dessert in NJ. Being a customer there was deadly.

@mirzaahmed6589 4 года назад

Good dessert? Tasty.

@emeraldkimble7602 2 года назад

Meijers? Please subtitle Meyers? I don’t know which one.

@imania.w.5815 4 года назад

This is why UBI (universal basic income) is so needed in this country. We are ther richest nation but people are forced to live in areas with poor water, limited access to healthy food, and little to make a way out of a bad situation. I hope Andrew Yang wins the election, it would do so much to help everyone, but especially those who need it most.

@RasslinRedbird 4 года назад

Everyone's taxes would go up to pay for something like that. It always sounds so good when someone else is paying for it. Nobody is forced to live in these areas. They choose to live there, for whatever reason.

@sarapatrick2143 4 года назад

@@RasslinRedbird I'd hate to be you.

@TerranTaro 4 года назад

@@RasslinRedbird you mena like the amount we pay in taxes to keep food and housing programs going instead? They are forced to live i nthese areas, moving out of them costs money and thats a thing they obviously don't have.

@sevenman9672 4 года назад

I recommend reading the works of Clifford Douglas, all available free online - he is basically the patron saint of UBI, and he foresaw problems like this nearly a century ago, along with their solutions.

@dcg590 Год назад

No one if forced to do anything in this country. One of the any reasons it’s great. It’s up to you how your life goes. You get a choice here stop being a victim.

@janeeden919 3 года назад

It must be annoying to buy a week’s worth of food in one go. Fresh vegetables go off and sometimes you change your mind about what you want to cook.

@sammysoppy3361 4 года назад

So wait. People complain about food deserts and what to do and then this really awesome public transport is arranged to give people access and and the bus driver says hardly anyone uses it....okkkkk then I guess you can’t help people who don’t want help 🤷🏻‍♀️

@metaphoricdirigible1499 4 года назад

steph soppanish It sucks when you’re one of the people who takes advantage of the service like this and then they cut the line for lack of use. Ditto for medical and school routes.

@mickdavis2385 4 года назад

lol exactly.

@Rene-uz3eb Год назад

I do think lack of mobility is what locks poverty in. They have obtained the subsidized housing and allowances, but it’s all local, there is no incentive to move anywhere else to find a job, because it takes forever to get housing like that, to move is not worth the risk but at the same time, you can’t expect the jobs to come to you. When you have a declining area, the only people who stay are the poor, which accelerates the demographic fall. Same with the banlieus in France, they live in generational poverty because they have secured housing which is difficult to obtain. Unlike regular job seekers who can move where the jobs are.

@freedomdayeveryday 4 года назад

What happened to you, America?

@onlineshoppingjakarta7338 4 года назад

Many people does not have money.

@lemmym7393 3 года назад

Banana Republic

@amymeanor8879 4 года назад

What a sad shame..to see

@ohmyblindman 4 года назад

It's easier and cheaper to go to McDonalds.

@thestudentofficial5483 4 года назад

Not having a car shouldn't be punished like this

@superdon1chw 4 года назад

As criminal take a area over, stores can not stay there because the thief. So now your taking the thief to the stores that my be ready for them maybe not .they stop buses to mall in my area because of the bad news these people kids bring

@86kickass 4 года назад

The reason for food deserts is that it wouldn’t be profitable to open a supermarket in the hood after u factor in the cost of all the items that will be stolen

@missmojo8779 4 года назад

What on Earth did you do to our ears at the beginning?!?? That’s horrible sounds!

@Sylverlea1 4 года назад

Public services are not supposed to be profitable that is not the intent of a "common good" to make a profit the intent should be to help people.

@wc2512 4 года назад

This service will not last long - the demand is not there. If it has survived, the amount of taxpayers money ploughed into it must be huge.

@carrietoo 4 года назад

People need to learn how to farm.

@katherinechunky 4 года назад

And water crops with lead-contaminated water?

@paddym6778 4 года назад

People shouldn't have to learn how to farm in the richest country in the world

@carlosvasquez6054 4 года назад

Amy Sternheim Flints water is contaminated with lead

@c.d.9035 4 года назад

Urban farming is great, but this is Michigan, and you can't grow anything half the year.

@c.d.9035 4 года назад

@Amy Sternheim Looks like a good channel. I just checked out his most recent video, where he's standing in a garden full of dead plants talking about how this is the time of year to plan next year's garden.

@meowritz 4 года назад

America is a weird country with so many third world problems its insane

@JizzMasterTheZeroth 4 года назад

Some people can't be helped.

@_A_D_ 8 лет назад

Autonomous buses are coming and this guy will be out of a job.

@cindyrolle6476 4 года назад

Only in poor neighborhoods. Trump’sMAGA! Congress isn’t getting anything done in America with regards to the infrastructure.

@ansh7335 4 года назад

Next time focus your camera on something other than the SUN.

@ymimad49 4 года назад

there are food deserts because stores cant stay in business when they are robbed constantly, its hard but they cant stay in places where they are robbed on a daily basis

@JenJHayden 4 года назад

well said

@yellowbird5411 4 года назад

We had a chain store come to a really bad area in my nice city, with great accolades, fanfare, ribbon cutting, etc. as it was a "food desert." It lasted about two years, then they had to close. The drugs, crime, graffiti and damage made working there unsafe and it was not profitable.