#honestweight

Upper Madison Street Festival . . . #518 #honestweight #albanyny #uppermadison (at Albany, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUQ6TmAgGO4/?utm_medium=tumblr

#Dinner from #honestweight (at Greenville Arms 1889 Inn)

"5. Stop trying to compete with large grocery chains, including Whole Foods. In the early 1980's retail food co-ops peaked at around 600. Today there about 250 with 275 stores. Large grocery retailers have benefited from the mainstreaming of natural and organic foods at the expense of small stores, and retail food co-ops have hurt themselves by increasingly relying on the same supply chains as their larger competitors. The industrialization of the organic foods movement has made it easy for supermarkets to acquire foods that were once considered niche or specialty items. Many supermarkets have natural and organic food sections that are larger than entire food co-ops. Their buying power allows them to undersell their competitors or better absorb loss-leaders (products priced at or below cost in order to attract shoppers who then spend additional dollars during that trip). Think outside the box, and outside the box store."

Like remember the old store?  How the labels were hand made, often with markers or crayon?  And how there was worker-made art on the walls?  I guess those days are over.  Permanently.