Salad shouldn’t be a delicacy.
For most families, it’s not. And now fresh vegetables and lean meat will no longer be out of reach for the Chicago neighborhood Englewood, labeled a “food desert” for lack of supermarkets much beyond the couple of grocery aisles in the drugstore or the corner liquor store.
That’s because a long-anticipated Whole Foods WFM, -0.78% opened there Wednesday, while a new Starbucks started serving espresso a few doors down, all part of a plan first announced in 2013.
The typically upscale Whole Foods will occupy an 18,000-square-foot store in the newly constructed Englewood Square shopping complex during a notably violent year in the neighborhood, one of the city’s poorest—it served as the setting for Spike Lee’s controversial “Chiraq” movie, and median household income is under $20,000, according to Census data.
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