Editing Atlantic City, New Jersey (section)

=== Food desert ===
Atlantic City is widely known as a [[food desert]], with the nearest fully-functioning supermarket being located in neighboring [[Ventnor City, New Jersey|Ventnor City]], which is {{Convert|3|mi}} away from the majority of Atlantic City's population. As a result, proposals for a supermarket were floated beginning in May 2021, and Atlantic City's City Council gave permission to the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority to look for a contender to build a supermarket.

As of December 2023, there was only one functioning supermarket in Atlantic City, the [[Save-A-Lot]] food store located in Renaissance Plaza, an area of the city known for its significant homeless population and drug use. The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority has proposed a new supermarket that would be located on an empty parking lot behind the Tanger Outlets and near the [[Atlantic City Expressway]].

Groundbreaking for a [[ShopRite (United States)|ShopRite]] supermarket had taken place in October 2021, after Village Super Market received $18.7 million from the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority to construct the store. The supermarket  was expected to be completed by December 2022, although no construction or building had happened on the site, which drew attention from residents. After the time for the contract expired, the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) announced that the deal with Village Super Market (VSM) was dead and that they were looking for new contenders.<ref>{{Citation |title=Appendix E: The New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority |date=2017-11-03 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119448563.app5 |work=Audit & Accounting Guide |pages=221–224 |access-date=2023-12-02 |place=Hoboken, NJ, USA |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |doi=10.1002/9781119448563.app5 |isbn=978-1-119-44856-3}}</ref> VSM created a new plan for CRDA and the city's Council to review and by July 2023, it and a Chinese conglomerate headquartered in Hong Kong emerged as the two candidates to build the supermarket. However, as of November 2023, no further progress had been made on the construction plans and the two proposals were still "being reviewed."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-15 |title=ShopRite and China corporation go head to head in Atlantic City |url=https://pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/editorial/shoprite-and-china-corporation-go-head-to-head-in-atlantic-city/article_1d7447c6-20f5-11ee-b778-93fc35a5e333.html |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Press of Atlantic City |language=en}}</ref>