Inside the Food Access Model Cities Are Getting Wrong: Corner Stores, Redlining, and Feeding a City
Most people who see a broken food system either accept it or complain about it. Max Kaniger did something different — he walked into 70 corner stores and got told no by every single one before finding a partner willing to take a chance on fresh produce. Today, Kanbe's Markets operates in 125 locations across the Kansas City metro, covers 260 square miles, and rescued 1.7 million pounds of food last year. And the model wasn't built on new infrastructure — it was built on trust, existing ecosystems, and a Google Sheet that eventually hit 700,000 lines before it broke. In this episode, host…
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