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How online grocery shopping is making Britain's urban-rural inequality worse

Written by Andy Newing, Associate Professor in Applied Spatial Analysis, University of Leeds

Before the pandemic, online grocery shopping was typically something younger and more affluent people living in cities indulged in. When COVID hit, though, the market exploded.

In the first week of the first UK lockdown, demand for Ocado home deliveries was reportedly ten times higher than it had been the week before. But when...

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