By Taffie Foster-Toney

Co-Chair, WTPPN Health Equity and Social Justice Subcommittee

It’s bad enough that Pick ‘n Save is in the final stages of closing its fifth store in Milwaukee this summer, leaving many neighborhood residents scrambling to find somewhere else to shop. Many now have to travel miles, often without owning or having access to a vehicle, just to access healthy and affordable foods, medicines and other household goods.

Adding insult to injustice, shoppers at the five Pick ‘n Save stores were greeted with huge discounts on the store’s remaining inventory of tobacco products. Many of those stores are located in communities of color, which have historically and disproportionately been harmed by the tobacco industry.

At the Pick ‘n Save store in Metcalfe Park, which closed

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