Community Concerns Over Grocery Store Closures

This will become a food desert.

Find the grocery stores in this neighborhood

is already as hard as it is.

Every day you'll find these dental assistants

shopping at save a lot near 79th and Halstead on their lunch break.

You have to think about those that are on fixed income like the elderly people.

It's affordable for them.

It's closed, it's accessible, you know, so I really think it

would be really detrimental to shut this door down within this community.

The store is in Alderman David Moores Ward.

What I hope happens next is that yellow banana finds

another supplier that they can work with.

That's that's that's what I'm hoping.

The city tells us yellow banana save a lot.

The city and other financial partners are discussing opportunities to keep the stores open

with potential investors or new suppliers.

There were ribbon cuttings and grand reopenings after the city gave

yellow banana $13.5 million to help refurbish six of the seven stores

which are supposed to stay open through 2035.

If they close, they must reopen as grocery stores within a year.

The city is also looking at ways to recoup taxpayer funding if necessary.

I'm going to continue.