A south Wichita community now has no immediate access to fresh fruits and vegetables after their neighborhood Save-A-Lot closed and is now being replaced with a store that does not sell produce. Hamid Bakhtiari, the Wichita-raised developer, is putting in a new dollar store to replace the Save-A-Lot. Bakhtiari said he tried to replace the Save-A-Lot with another grocery storebut that the stores that were interested would not do it without incentives. “We had probably half a million dollars in refrigeration in that place. Walk-in coolers, we had everything there,” said Bakhtiari. Bakhtiari said he was ready to find a new grocery store for the food desert, but did not have enough help from the city.
Source: KSN-TV
