[RP TownTalk] if you support mixed use development of Cafritzproperty...

Fri Aug 12 10:56:02 UTC 2011

The one advantage that the local farmers markets have is that they accept special WIC checks given to people just so they will buy fresh veggies from those type markets.  They are not allowed to use them in grocery stores so at least thats one thing that might keep the markets open when the big organic markets open.
Carol
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sue Collins 
  To: bruce.wernek at mindspring.com ; towntalk at riverdale-park.org 
  Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 8:16 AM
  Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] if you support mixed use development of Cafritzproperty...

  There's also My Organic Market (Mom) in College Park.  Too, many of the regular chain stores like Giant, Safeway, Shoppers, etc., are getting more and more organic products in stock.  Sad to say, it doesn't make much difference to me how many organic markets there are; with the cost of food the way it is and the economy the way it is and my wages frozen, I can't afford to shop at these stores, at least not for a big grocery order.  I can't even afford to buy as much at our farmers' market as I used to, much to my regret.  Fact is, not everyone in the Riverdale Park area has an income in keeping with the prices these stores charge.  

  From: "bruce.wernek at mindspring.com" <bruce.wernek at mindspring.com>
  To: "towntalk at riverdale-park.org" <towntalk at riverdale-park.org>
  Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 7:18 AM
  Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] if you support mixed use development of Cafritz property...

  Focus people.  Whole Foods is just a carrot for masses to grease the skids for the Cafritz development proposal.  The bottom line is what they are proposing with "all of the rights and privileges there of", not Whole Foods.  As I said in an earlier post, there is an organic market opening up right down the street in the EYA development.  Do we need three organic markets (EYA, RP, Whole Foods) within a mile of each other?

  I don’t think Whole Foods is going to help our Farmer’s Market.  Why would anyone come to an empty Town Center to swelter or freeze when they can go to Whole Foods and shop in comfort for possibly lower prices?  It’s a no brainer.
  Bruce  

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