People’s Grocery Market will be deeply committed to being an inclusive store that can serve all income segments. One way we plan to ensure that healthy foods are accessible to low-income shoppers is to offer ways of using food stamps that significantly benefit low-income families. One example of this is that we plan to offer […]

Here’s a link to a great editorial in the Washington Post by Mark Winne “We know hunger’s cause — poverty. We know its solution — end poverty. Let this Thanksgiving remind us of that task.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/16/AR2007111601213_2.html?hpid=opinionsbox1&sid=ST2007111900638

Abel Macias, an Oakland citizen and supporter of People’s Grocery, recently wrote the following letter to the Oakland Tribune in response to a recent article about the possible entrance of Tesco’s Fresh & Easy into Oakland.
“I was very disappointed when reading the story on Fresh & Easy (11/13/07, Business Section). I don’t understand […]

The future of California’s racial and ethnic makeup is going to be quite different from what it has been in the past. California’s minority population became the majority last year. Latinos now make up nearly one-third of the state’s population and are predicted to become the largest racial/ethnic group in the state within a decade. […]

People’s Grocery is striving to create a food retail business that offers a place for community to gather and for social interactions to take place. One reason why people in West Oakland frequent local stores is because it’s a social experience and part of the local culture. A common image in West Oakland lots of […]