Helps the store owner to do produce, understand how to work with produce and merchandise and work within the margins and profits associated with it. One important point to note and cigarettes give only 11 the Natural Foods can be 30 to 40 so there is an incentive to be more profitable and have more incentives and in tune to 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 t
In the language of your bill supervisor mar that part of the redesign of the store if at all possible take that into consideration and i dont know if that has been talked about but i think its extremely important because theyre part of our population, part of the people in San Francisco, and i think they deserve that type of recognition that they should be able to go into a small store, Corner Store Market and be able to get into some milk and bread, whatever without asking for someones help. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is fred and a food leader justice. I have learned [inaudible] about nutrition that i had no idea about nutrition before. I learned how on eat healthy and have a family. I came from the food a lot came from [inaudible] and now i teaching my family how to eat healthy. I guess Everybody Needs to eat health and he stay alive and i guess i just wanted being a food leader would help a lot of people live longer. I support the healthy food leader
Organizer with food justice and doing some of the management in the coalition and i would like to applaud you supervisors and doing this work and sets base and Community Work having a positive impact and providing resources to really expand the programs. In the healther Food Coalition started a year ago and we had a convening and residents identified the desire to turn the Corner Stores that tend to have negative impact into something positive and we got a coalition from the meeting and met with neighbors that showed a desire to have healthy food access in the neighborhood. We found through the surveying process residents are spending half of the food budget outside of the neighborhood and 50 a month owfdz the neighborhood. If you expand that to the 17,000 households in the tenderloin that is over 900,000 each month leaving the tenderloin and they dont have the food they want and we are encouraging this and a lot of the merchants are excited as well and a lot of the success is due to t
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 nationally as well as regionally. Promoting healthy food retailing promotes Good Nutrition and provide economic benefits such as supplying living wage job and the work is critical. The this is about addressing disparities and Economic Development and about jobs and entrepreneurship and revitalizing our commercial districts which these stores play a critical role. We need to keep our food dollars in the neighborhood and not leaking out and this goes a long way to that point. As
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 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