wilson. i own one of a kind gifts in downtown natchez. i ve been at this location in this historic building for 23 years. come on in. a lot of these stores here have apartments upstairs. right. you rent out the apartment upstairs and one in the back as well? i do. how does that help you? oh, my. it pays my bank note for one thing which is wonderful. then too, those people shop with us. in essence, your real estate is free. you have a mortgage but it s paid by your renters. exactly. i m renee adams. i m co-owner of rolling river roasters on main street in natchez, mississippi. one season on main street, it s very busy, especially in the tourism town. in the other time, your catering has to take care of retail side. it s about your partnerships and relationships to make it all happen. i find that with so many people i talk to here, you have more than one business. you have to have it. you can t rely on one avenue because of the dips and turns. as a single entrepre
kind gifts here and i ve been at this location in this historic building for 23 years. come on in. so a lot of these stores downtown have an apartment upstairs. you rent out one upstairs and in the back, as well. how does it help you? oh, my, well it pays my bank note for one thing and those people shop with us. in essence, your real estate is free. you have a mortgage but it s paid by the renters. exactly. i m coowner of rolling river roasters on main street. one season it s busy, especially in a tourism town. in another time, your catering has to take over the retail side. it s about your partnerships and relationships that make that happen. i find that with so many people i talk with here, they have more than one business. tough have it. as a single entrepreneur, it s very hard, it s all about cash flow. one of the reasons i m happy to be down south is this tea,
food waste, this u.n. report. it found that the united states wastes up to 40% of the food in this country. i think a lot of folks see that figure and they hear that figure and they just wonder, is it our country s food system that s broken? if we re producing so much food, how is it that we re not able to get that food to the people who need it most? where s the breakdown? there are a couple of different reasons. most of the food waste that happens in the united states happens on the consumer and retail side. we re buying too much at big box stores. we re not taking home leftovers because we lost our culinary skills. we ve forgotten how to cook, so we cook too much. a lot needs to be done to encourage both retailers and consumers to make better food choices and waste less. mari, whole foods says its new chicago store will have affordable prices. the chain has already opened one in detroit although it s in an
judith moore launched the charleston cookie company in 2003 with one idea in mind. i thought i was running a cookie company. then i discovered we were running a gift company and the gifts happen to be cookies, really good cookies. it was brn out of moore s search for the perfect chocolate chip cookie. when she didn t find one, she decided to make her own. initially, the business thrived, especially on the retail side. thanks to the company s website, moore s cookies and brownies have even made their way around the globe. of course, that was then. now the retail business is down and moore is trying her hand with a new group of customers. what we re doing now is really emphasizing the wholesale aspect of our business until the retail recovers. for years, charleston cookie has sold wholesale to sanctuary hotel and dean and deluca.
well, here s the reality that even his advisers have to understand. the american people, republicans and democrats, do look at results or the lack thereof. so it s not lazy punditry when people are out there very frustrated with both ends of this. right. and they see the system as broken because, as you say, it doesn t produce a desirable result. being right is not enough, even if you re the president. even if you believe you re right, it doesn t necessarily get a result. presidential politics is about wholesale and retail as we say in the trade. and so today, this morning, he was doing a wholesale sell. he was using the bully pulpit. talking to you, making an intellectual case and trying to say, i won. this is what you voted for. this is what we adjudicated in the election. but on the retail side, as tom says, all evidence suggests he has not been the warmest and fuzziest of cajolers. and you have to do both. and you can t just be right on the idea. you do have to sell this.