I don't think this is really a solvable problem short of giving explicit city government subsidies to grocery stores in certain neighborhoods.
But of course the "driving out to a big store" is also subsidized. It's only cheap because of all the roads that have been built, all the subsidies over the decades that have made fuel so cheap, and the ability to freely "socialize the externalities" of burning fossil fuels.
But what I want is the ability to do a trip to a "big box" store further out once or twice a month, but be able to go somewhere close for smaller things day to day. But I definitely understand why the economics of this don't really work in most places. I just lament it.
I thought all the young people are doing things like DoorDash, Hello Fresh or Amazon Fresh etc.
Not saying they should be doing that so much, but seems like they aren’t interested in shopping at a Grocery store.
It's a clear short- vs long-term thinking issue, but the reality is most young people are living with so little hope for the future that denying immediate pleasures in search of a future payoff seems naive and pointless.