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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?

Business, Finance & Economics

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

Business, Economics and Jobs

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?

Business, Economics and Jobs

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.