Economics students collaborate with Grow Ohio Valley to move WV Forward with opening of affordable, healthy food market
WV Forward's blueprint lays out the need to improve the health, wellness and livability of West Virginians in local communities across the state in order to help boost economic stability and mobility. Faced with a declining rural population and below average income, many West Virginians are left living significant distances from supermarkets and reliable food sources.
In line with WV Forward's guiding principles of identifying a challenge and recognizing an opportunity to collaborate, students at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics have struck a partnership with the Grow Ohio Valley organization in Wheeling to help reduce these food deserts. The students from the supply chain technology course are helping Grow Ohio Valley get healthy and affordable food into the hands of those who want and need it most by opening a public market in the Robert C. Byrd Intermodal Transportation Terminal in downtown Wheeling.
In line with WV Forward's guiding principles of identifying a challenge and recognizing an opportunity to collaborate, students at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics have struck a partnership with the Grow Ohio Valley organization in Wheeling to help reduce these food deserts. The students from the supply chain technology course are helping Grow Ohio Valley get healthy and affordable food into the hands of those who want and need it most by opening a public market in the Robert C. Byrd Intermodal Transportation Terminal in downtown Wheeling.
The students have been working to build out materials handling, production processes, demand management, retail offerings and an information management system ahead of the opening of The Public Market in May 2019.