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How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

In 2011, Camden County, in far eastern North Carolina, had only one grocery. Supporting rural grocery stores has been a target of federal funding through the USDA’s Healthy Foods Financing Initiative (HFFI), first authorized in 2014. By 2016, it had lost that store. Source: Wikimedia Creative Commons, Accessed July 18, 2023.

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