Carrying these Healthy Foods and thank you very much and i am available for questions. Can i ask that you repeat the statistics and its more profitable to sell produce than alcohol and cigarettes. Sure. I have been involved in the natural Food Industry for 3540 years and clearly what is happening is that there is a Strong Demand for these natural Food Products and also produce, so these numbers the gros Profit Margins that the stores can have and be competitive is between the 30 and 40 range. Cigarettes is 11 and alcohol is 25 so there is incentive to be more profitable and always as they will discover these other items like cigarettes and alcohol are a smaller of the total store sales. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is a cochair of the southeast work group and some of the other leaders. Michael janice and the Produce Market or the manager for the wholesale Produce Market and i know that for healthy fresh food that is one thing but affordable food is another thing and thank you
Discover these other items like cigarettes and alcohol are a smaller of the total store sales. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is a cochair of the southeast work group and some of the other leaders. Michael janice and the Produce Market or the manager for the wholesale Produce Market and i know that for healthy fresh food that is one thing but affordable food is another thing and thank you for your role in making sure that we have affordable food. Thank you supervisors. As you may know we are a coalition of over 25 Community Members and cbos and the Community Working collaboratively to ensure sustainable and affordable and healthy food is available to the residents in bay view Hunters Point. We have developed a Pilot Program for sustainable retail in the bay view Hunters Point neighborhood and in addition to the food guard guardians and Health Promotion throughout the country and influenced other efforts in other under served neighborhoods in the city and it has had recognition
Good deal. I found a tree that was 50 and it is 30. Quite a savings. Kmart offering something free tomorrow, that is free flu shots at many locations. A shot in the arm for consumers and kmary hopes a shot in the arm for its sales. Carolyn nick smith is live at walmart in san leandro where there has been some shopping backlash . Absolutely. If you are sitting at home and time to grab your wallet and shop. We started early. Its only thursday but black friday Holiday Shopping has started. We kind of stopped in to get a sneak preview but it looks like everything is not yet opened up. Early shoppers are willing to camp out for the best deals on electronics. That is part of the allure. This is big one for retailers. An economy in recovery means consumers are Holding Tight to their pocketbooks forcing retailers to fight harder for every dollar you spend. This is last minute thanksgiving thing. Walmart is hoping they will follow the lead and head out early. They made a move that has left many
Islamic five Islamic State voters head home from the conflict in syria and iraq reports from chechnya. Also ahead the World Economic forum gets underway in switzerland today security costs topping eight million euro german chancellor Angela Merkel french president. And u. S. President all are expected. I want to welcome im terry Martin Thanks for joining us. Turkey has intensified its offensive all of branch against Kurdish Militias in Northern Syria the turkish army and syrian rebel fighters crossed into the turkish enclave of freeney in Northern Syria on saturday. Is controlled by the kurdish y p g militia which has been a key ally of the u. S. In the fight against socalled Islamic State but turkey sees the wife as a Terror Organization and has urged the u. S. To stop backing them turkeys president right chip time era to one. There will be no letting up until the job is done. Operation all of branch is anything but a peace offering the following airstrikes the Turkish Military with t
More local meat, produce and grains will be hitting food bank shelves this summer thanks to a more than $500,000 Local Food Purchasing Agreement Grant for the Food Bank of Wyoming from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The goal of the funding is to buy more food from small-scale Wyoming producers and distribute it to folks in need across the state.