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Steven Malanga joins Seth Barron to discuss efforts to restrict dollar stores in cities across the country\\u2014the subject of Malanga\\u2019s popular story for City Journal, \\u201cUnjust Deserts.\\u201d

For nearly 20 years, \\u201cfood deserts\\u201d\\u2014neighborhoods without supermarkets\\u2014have captured the attention of public officials, activists, and the media, who often blame the situation on dollar-discount stores in these areas. These stores, it\\u2019s claimed, drive out supermarkets with their low prices and saturate poor neighborhoods with junk food. But are dollar stores really to blame for bad diets?