When people pay less for getting more, they tend to take advantage of it. For example it’s easier to get cheaper food at a local fast food restaurant but, if you go to a store like Whole Foods Market, which is not as easy to locate in a lower income community, in order to get a very satisfying meal that can fill you up, you will probably be spending double of what you spent at the fast food restaurant. “Whole Foods’ prices were 48 percent higher than the average prices we found at the Shaw’s and Stop & Shop stores we checked—for the limited number of comparable items available at each chain. On the other hand, Whole Foods consistently receives very high scores on quality of fresh produce and meat, which account for many of the items we could compare between Whole Foods and the other chains”(“Keys Finding from Our …show more content…
Researchers found that healthier diet patterns for example, diets rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, and nuts which are mainly sold in supermarkets are cost significantly more than unhealthy diets (for example, those rich in processed foods, meats, and refined grains) sold in convenience store and fast food restaurant . On average, a day’s worth of the healthiest diet patterns cost about $1.50 more per day than the least healthy ones. People consume what they see in their environment and what is cheaper and can fill them up. Fast food restaurants like McDonalds, Burger Kings, KFC, Popeyes knows that. This is the reason those fast food restaurants sell large portions of food that contains a lot of calories, fat ingredients, satisfying, at a very low price. According to the article by James O. hill, it states “Our current environment is characterized by an essentially unlimited supply of convenient, relatively inexpensive, highly palatable, energy-dense foods”. This is one why Fast food