“I Hate That Food Lion”: Grocery Shopping, Racial Capitalism, and Everyday Disinvestment

Using interview data from three mixed-income neighborhoods—one predominantly white and two multiracial neighborhoods—we find that an overwhelming majority of white, middle-class respondents did not shop in their local grocery store ( n = 68). To explain this phenomenon, we propose a concept everyday disinvestment to capture the interplay between individual-level decision-making structural-level under racial capitalism. We identify practices disinvestment—avoidance, distancing, selective engagement—as well as rationalizations residents present for behaviors. argue capitalist ideologies antiblackness consumption freedom are foundational residents’ justifications stores communities. Everyday only expands our understanding mechanism capitalism, but it deepens food apartheid relational process.