Archive for April, 2008

People’s Grocery on CNBC, Sundance Channel & KRON 4

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Check out the recent media play that People’s Grocery has been getting:
CNBC’s “Street Signs” ran a “Green Collar Economy” series this week. People’s Grocery was featured on the April 23rd show, entitled “Growing Green”. Click here to check it out.
The Sundance Channel is running a new show called “The Good Fight”. Click […]

Can We Compete With the Big Guys? Yes!

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Back in March 2007 I wrote a blog post entitled “Urban Grocery Store Gap” about the entrance of Fresh & Easy into urban neighborhoods and my concerns that this would eclipse the opportunity for local entrepreneurs to start grocery stores to meet local food needs and, thereby, capture local spending power for local reinvestment. When […]

Slow Food: Elitist, Irrelevant or Just Too Defensive?

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Much fanfare is being made about the upcoming Slow Food Nation conference, to be held from Friday, August 29 to Monday, September 1, 2008 in San Francisco. Among this fanfare were criticisms laid against Slow Food by Bruce Sterlings in the March 2008 issue of the online magazine Metropolis, where he accuses Slow Food of […]

People’s Grocery - Karma Tube video of the week

Friday, April 4th, 2008

The Global Oneness Project recently produced a short video about People’s Grocery. according to the website, the purpose of the Global Oneness Project is to explore “how the simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world”. They have produced lots of great videos in addition to the recent one about People’s […]