By Antonio D. French
Filed Sunday, November 19, 2006 at 9:52 AM
According to a Downtown St. Louis Partnership newsletter, City Grocers, the only full service grocery market in downtown St. Louis, plans to relocate to the newly renovated Syndicate building thereby expanding from 6,500 square feet to over 14,000 square feet. Labels: Announcements
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For every dollar spent in local business, four is put back into the local economy. This is due to the fact that national chains often have their own accountant, marketing/pr, and other support divisions. Local business often uses other local business to provide these services. It is to go see a locally owned grocers is doing so well downtown!
11/20/2006 8:18 AM
But will they take food stamps?
11/20/2006 9:31 AM
Sure, I've always wanted to buy some garlic-stuffed olives, California rolls and baba ganoush with my EBT card.
11/20/2006 1:52 PM
Where is the new location going to be? Like what cross-street?
11/20/2006 2:45 PM
Directly across Olive from their current location at tenth.
11/20/2006 2:47 PM
^IOW, the ground floor of The Syndicate, just north of their current Bell Lofts location.
11/20/2006 3:31 PM
I hate have to bring this up, anony the 2nd, but poor people get to choose what they eat, too.
There was actually a customer we had at City Grocers who came in every two weeks or so and bought a (modest) tray of sushi, and she frequently complained to me and other cashiers about the place not taking EBT. She told me that even if she could use her EBT on sushi every day she wouldn't, but it was her favorite food and she felt that she was still entitled to eat it every now and then despite being poor.
Seriously, anony, some time you should stop by Bob's Quality Supermarket on North Florissant and see what kind of food options central city residents currently do have on food stamps.
11/21/2006 6:24 PM
"Sure, I've always wanted to buy some garlic-stuffed olives, California rolls and baba ganoush with my EBT card."
Grow up.
11/21/2006 10:15 PM
^And I hate to bring this up, but middle-income folks get to choose where they work and shop. So then, if you don't like City Grocers' policies, you really shouldn't work for them or patronize them. But privileged me, I'll still shop at the only grocer brave enough to serve Downtown.
11/22/2006 10:02 AM
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