Grocers Have to Leave the Chain to Offer Local Food

[c9]

Fascinating look at local food options and how the big chains can't/won't offer them due to cost, paperwork, cost, auditing ability, cost, and did I mention cost? Remember that your decisions in a grocery store are your vote: if a company is selling more organic stuff, more local stuff, less chemical stuff, they will react to that. Check out how the organic section has grown in your store in the past few years!

Buy-local push prompts Ontario grocers to go independent [CBC.ca]

Five Sobeys grocery stores in southern Ontario have left the Sobeys chain so they can offer local meats and produce -- I just wish they were closer to Toronto!



We do have an independent meat store a couple blocks from our house (Fresh From The Farm) which we're going to try visiting more often (and they do online ordering!) plus we just signed up for Front Door Organics which will deliver local produce right to our house on a schedule we set at a pretty good cost. Fun!

Comments

[1-2-ready-go.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that we have food growing RIGHT IN OUR YARD (ooh, ah). But I know you don't like tomatoes...

[c9.livejournal.com]

That's right! There's even food that I do like there! Well, there will be. Mostly it's just leaves right now.

[1-2-ready-go.livejournal.com]

We have one stringbean ready for harvest. Come home before I eat it.