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Detroit community crowd-funds the only Black-owned grocery store in the city henryherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from henryherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Raphael Wright is crowdfunding his way to being the only black grocery store owner in Detroit. He plans to open Neighborhood Grocery to offer a wide selection of items ranging from fresh produce and local products to the city’s east side.
“There s nothing that s walkable or nothing that delivers food of a healthy variety or a whole variety in that neighborhood,” he said.
Wright turned to small-scale investors to back the launch, because, he said, traditional lenders tend to balk at the slim profit margins yielded by grocery stores.
“Instead of begging to be at somebody else s table or knocking at somebody else s door,” he said, “we created our own platform and do what we need to do for ourselves.” ....
If anyone was built to feed people during a pandemic, it’s Phil Jones. Not many chefs would know what to do with 100,000 pounds of cooked and diced chicken thighs, let alone how to get it to people in need safely and quickly, but Jones isn’t your average chef. That’s why the three semi-truckloads of chicken ended up in his possession last spring as COVID-19 snarled supply chains and imperiled distribution efforts to the food insecure. “Just another day in the D,” Jones wrote me in a text message then, nonchalantly describing the enormous donation from a Canadian food processor. ....
Great Grocer Project in Detroit Debuts - DBusiness Magazine dbusiness.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dbusiness.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Great Grocer Project aims to help independently owned grocery stores in Detroit Copyright 2018 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. File and last updated 2021-03-11 10:21:46-05 DETROIT (WXYZ) â The Great Grocer Project, a community-based program to strengthen relationships between independently owned grocery stores and their customers in Detroit, launched on Wednesday. The program is a joint initiative by Wayne State University, the Detroit Food Policy Council and members of the Detroit Grocery Coalition, according to a press release. It also aims to provide support to increase awareness and sales of healthy foods within Detroit neighborhood. ....