By KATHERINE BURGESS
The Wichita Eagle 

Mobile grocery truck to open in Kansas

 


WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — It won't be long before a grocery store on wheels pulls up in the Cowley County towns of Burden, Udall and Dexter.

The Cowley County Anchor Mobile Market will be one of the first mobile markets in the nation trying to solve the problem of rural food deserts by bringing fresh, healthy food straight to shoppers.

It's a model that organizers hope to spread across rural America: One day, you might find a grocery store pulling up into your own small town.

"This is a very different model," said Elizabeth Burger, senior program officer at the health philanthropy Sunflower Foundat...



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