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that are not only "food deserts" with no supermarket, but "bank deserts", with no banks whatsoever, and what little financial-related businesses that they may have access to are check-cashing places that are almost usurious, but they will take the check and cash it.

Their source of groceries end up being small corner stores that sell limited perishable food (maybe bread, milk, eggs) as well as canned goods, dry foodstuffs like rice, beans, pasta, etc, that are often "cash only" because thieves come in and put "skimmers" on their debit/credit terminals to steal the card info.

In fact, for a number of those little stores that did have full ATM machines, what has unfortunately happens is this -

So you also have owners of those little stores either with a machine out of order or none at all due to idiots trying to blow open the machine to get the money out. I remember one instance where some perps broke into a little store next to one that was secured with one of those metal gates over the windows/door that had an ATM, and they literally blew away the wall in the adjoining store to get into the store with the ATM so they could take the machine out.

Hell - 2 banks near me had exterior ATMs blown up and they had to put the replacement ones inside.

Blowing up ATMs is a "thing". And robbing armored trucks is too, as there is a spate of those here happening in NE Philly in the past couple weeks.