Better than Wal-Mart

As an Air Force brat, one of my childhood memories was making the trek to commissary stores with my mom at air bases in Oklahoma, Alabama and California. It was for good reason we shopped at the commissary, I see from a recent report. Average customer savings for a family of four have risen to nearly $3,000 annually; families who shop at military commissaries save an average of 32% over retail supermarkets, defense officials say. Considering the hardships military families endure, the benefit is well-deserved.

A study of the incidence of obesity among toddlers in the inner city are explored in this feature. Limited access and the high cost of fresh produce is cited in the study.