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Dollar stores and diet the focus of URI-led study

SPREADING OUT: University of Rhode Island public health professor Wenhui Feng examines a map of dollar stores in Rhode Island, most of them concentrated in urban areas. Feng is leading a new study on dollar stores and the food that is purchased there. 
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SPREADING OUT: University of Rhode Island public health professor Wenhui Feng examines a map of dollar stores in Rhode Island, most of them concentrated in urban areas. Feng is leading a new study on dollar stores and the food that is purchased there. 
PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE BERNABA

For Rhode Islanders who live in neighborhoods without a full-service grocer, a so-called dollar store can be a convenient and affordable place to buy food. And it’s becoming a bigger part of the way Americans shop. A 2023 study by University of Rhode Island public health professor Wenhui Feng found dollar stores were the fastest-growing

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