I even find grocery stores and markets from neighborhood to neighborhood in our region interesting in their difference.

Yesterday I was walking down 7th Street in Allentown and stopped into an open air produce market that was happening in a vacant lot (the guy was not a farmer, but selling produce he had unloaded from his truck). Then, I went into a bodega/dollar store, where I was impressed by the selection of interesting Latin foods (I bought some garlic plantain chips that were delicious!).

From their I drove to a health food store to pick up some veggie burgers, but they were closed, so I headed to the big suburban grocery store and their freezer section. I occurred to me how much variety in food is available in a small distance and all of the distinct demographic markets I had hit in less than an hour.

On earlier post pointed out that some supermarkets don’t have what you want (organic milk or whatever). I read somewhere that when you don’t find organic products, you should always find the manager and ask them to carry the product. Grocery store managers are trained that every person who asks for a given product represents X people who want the product but would never speak up. If we want organics on the shelves of supermarkets, we need to keep asking.