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The Hungry Child and the Corner Store

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Urban corner stores in Northeast Ohio have a reputation for contributing to neighborhood demise. Sales of liquor, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and other high-calorie low-nutrition foods along with high check-cashing fees have given corner stores titles such as “predatory” or “destructive.”

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Correspondence to Stacey Gardner-Buckshaw PhD, MPA .

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Gardner-Buckshaw, S. (2019). The Hungry Child and the Corner Store. In: Perzynski, A., Shick, S., Adebambo, I. (eds) Health Disparities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12771-8_18

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