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Online grocery shopping is making urban-rural inequalities greater according to this Conversation piece by Andy Newing. 

He is Associate Professor in Applied Spatial Analysis, University of Leeds.

In 2019, he mapped the areas that had access to home deliveries from companies like Ocado.


This was before the surge in demand for these services at the start of the pandemic, and particularly during lockdown, when numbers using these services increased dramatically.

One to develop further for the classroom...

And here's a related map...

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