#grocery store dorchester

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Dorchester Food Co-op, Boston’s only member-owned grocery store, celebrates grand opening - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

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everyone please send me good energies wrt this apartment in dorchester, i suddenly got contacted by the landlord asking if im available to see the apartment today after work!!!

im so excited! i really want this place so bad! it’d free up so much of my budget & i would live closer to work and one of my friends and a grocery store

i need this…..

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“Police Catch Burglar Red Handed,” Windsor Star. May 28, 1938. Page 03. --- ‘Tip’ Leads To Capture --- Culprit Was Ransacking Office When Two Constables Came --- Another Arrest --- Youth Is Roused From Slumber in Boat to Make Jail Trip ---- Alexander Greer, 42, of 1060 Oak avenue, was arrested on a breaking and entering charge early this morning after he was captured by police in a shop at 289 Wyandotte street west. In the police station cells he joined Girard Poirier, 20, of Dorchester, Que., picked up earlier on a similar charge.

REMANDS ORDERED In police court this morning Greer pleaded guilty and was remanded week for sentence.

Poirier did not enter a plea. He elected summary trial and was given a similar remand.

Responding to a call that a man had been seen entering the small machine shop operated by Ray Vigneux on Wyandotte street, Constables Smith and Lossowski found the glass in the front door had been smashed. Peering through the front window, the officers noticed a man ransacking the office desk.

Entering the establishment, the constables arrested Greer without any trouble.

Clifford Dupuis, of the Hollywood Hotel directly across the street from the shop, provided the tip that resulted in Greer’s arrest. He noticed a man break the window and then walk away. While he was phoning police, his wife saw the man return and enter the building.

SLEEPING IN BOAT After he was arrested when found sleeping in a boat at the foot of Bridge avenue, Poirier is said to have confessed that he was one of three men who broke into a grocery store at 1794 London street west and made off with $25 worth of cigarets and soft drinks, chocolate bars and groceries.

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For @orbisonblue ‘s birthday, an unbeta’d or edited bit for Ez and Em from Nothing More Certain. 

A lot of people in town would probably be surprised to find out that Ezra was a spring baby. Although, Emery imagined a lot of people didn’t like to think of Ezra has having been a baby at all, much less having a birthday. When Emery thought about it, he found it fitting that Ezra, who loved and appreciated life the way only he could, had been born as the flowers began to bloom.

The trouble was—and there was trouble—with everyone in town only too happy to pretend Ezra had sprung into existence as a full-grown adult with no feelings, it was up to Emery, and his mother, and Ezra’s dad, to remember Ezra’s birthday. And Emery had. He had at least gotten that part right. He had been unable to forget Ezra’s birthday even when he’d wanted to.

But he was not so great at the rest of it. Being a boyfriend.

Emery didn’t have a boyfriend temperament, not the kind Ez deserved. Valentine’s Day had proven that. The whole holiday was contrived nonsense and emotional hostage-taking. There was nothing romantic about forcing people to buy shit for each other. Nonetheless, Emery had remembered it and thought… worried… that Ezra might expect something. The disbelief on Ezra’s face at being presented with a handful of flowers had all but said that Ezra either didn’t care about Valentine’s Day, or, more likely, hadn’t thought Emery would.

Now there was Ez’s birthday to contend with, and Emery had spent probably too much time trying to think of what he ought to do. Just giving Ez a present wasn’t enough. All Ezra ever wanted were things like yarn or paint or glitter, which Emery knew nothing about. Telling him he could have a go at any room in Emery’s house was pointless since Ezra had implicit permission to do whatever he wanted and they both knew it, and even if he did ask, Emery had never been able to say no to him. Not ever. Not with any real force behind it.

But did that make him happy?

It did, obviously. But happy enough? Emery pretended he wasn’t haunted by that question while he glaring down at the decision he already regretted. He should have thrown Ez a party. Told all his witchy friends that they had better be there no matter what their personal thoughts on celebrating Ezra’s life or whatever bullshit ideas they still had about Ezra not being allowed to be frivolous.

But Ezra would never make anyone do that, so Emery couldn’t either. Then, he had considered just taking Ez out to dinner, but Ez already did that with his dad, and he and Emery went out for dinner already more than they should.

It wasn’t…special enough.

Emery sighed heavily. He didn’t think this was, either. But this was at least something he remembered Ezra doing with his mom when she’d been alive and they’d been kids. Emery had committed to this, to the point of marching into Dorchester Grocery and finding Bartleby Dorchester and announcing that on Ezra’s birthday, no one was going to call him for anything, no matter what. Understood?

Ridiculous. Emery had no power at all and they were witches, a fact he was still dealing with. But he said it and Bartleby, having one of his butchier days apparently, with flattened hair and jeans and eyeliner but no other makeup, stared back before nodding, and somehow, magically, it had worked. Ezra had seemed a little perplexed but happy enough to be handed tea while still in bed and wished a happy birthday before Emery had to head out to work—spring was his busier season, after all.

Ezra had puttered around the house, gone to lunch with a friend who very likely had no idea who and what Ezra was, and then run errands.

Emery had hurried back here to Ezra’s apartment like a fool to set out a grocery store sheet cake covered in frosting roses, with a cursive Happy Birthday, Ez, across the top. He realized now he should have gotten some adult dessert, or a real cake from a fancy bakery. But he had this and Neapolitan ice cream in the freezer, which was so childish it was a wonder that Emery hadn’t hired a clown. Bright, striped candles in the cake were hardly the touch of gothic elegance Ez was used to.

He should stash it all and just take Ez to dinner.

Emery hadn’t finished the thought before he heard Ezra at the front door. He darted a guilty look to Wooly, who sat on the back of Ez’s big armchair and stared back at him with bright eyes. Then Ezra swept in, turning to close the door and set down packages, tossing his keys onto the little table as he did.

Wooly jumped down and disappeared into the bedroom, but Emery barely noticed because then Ezra looked up. He seemed startled first that the lights were on, that Emery was there, although he was the one who had left the key in a little black box tied with gray ribbon under Emery’s stunted little Christmas tree.

He smiled, and then his gaze went down to the cake with its unlit candles on his countertop. He took a few steps closer but stopped without crossing into the kitchen.

He didn’t say anything.

This was so much more awkward than Emery had anticipated. Maybe cakes were only good if there was a party. He should have thrown a party. He should have asked his mother first.

He cleared his throat. “Happy birthday,” he said, not quiet but not exactly loud.

Ezra’s gaze came up from the cake. He was in a long-sleeved white collared shirt with black suspenders, and a long, pale violet scarf. He put his hands together, but still said nothing.

“This was a mistake,” Emery said, or started to say, but it was drowned out by Ezra’s small, soft, “Thank you.”

“What?” Emery asked, then startled and shook his head. “I mean, it’s…I can light the candles. Or if you think it’s stupid, I can just order a pizza…or we can go get one. Or some other food. Whatever you want. I just thought—”

“Hush.” Ezra held one finger up and used Emery’s moments of startled, grateful silence to study him, then the cake, then Emery again. It was only when Ezra pulled in a deep breath that Emery realized he was emotional. “Are you going to sing to me?”

Emery’s immediate thought that was that he would rather die than sing for anyone else to hear. His second was, “Yeah.” He was gruff but Ezra usually liked that. “If you want me to… and if no one else is around.”

Ezra blinked. “You love me.”

Emery’s face and neck were getting hot and he didn’t care for it, so he rolled his eyes. “Ez.” Ezra knew that already. Should know it, even if Emery was a terrible boyfriend. “There’s ice cream, too,” he offered.

Finally, Ezra smiled. The sort of smile other people didn’t see, because they didn’t know to give him things like breakfast in bed—toast, but it counted—or a bouquet of pink and purple flowers, or, apparently, ice cream and cake.

Ezra passed a hand over his face, then zipped forward to throw his arms around Emery and squeeze him tight. “What kind of cake is it?” he demanded, muffled. He was keeping his head down. It had to be deliberate.

Emery didn’t know what to do with tears, happy or otherwise. He patted Ez’s shoulder. “Chocolate, with fudge frosting. You like chocolate, so I figured….”

“Hmm.” Ezra lifted his head enough to place a soft kiss on Emery’s neck. “Thank you,” he said again, strain in the words that Emery didn’t understand until Ezra kissed him again.

Emery nodded, to himself and the absent but discreet cat, and ignored his embarrassment at doing that as he dropped a kiss into Ezra’s hair. “Happy birthday, Ez.”  

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Grocery store tips: Out of TP? ASK FIRST. Next: tissues, paper towels, need be. Out of bread on the shelves? Check the bakery! Our bakery didn't have it out but they had it and would slice it for you. Out of cheese? Check the fancy, higher end cheese section. Out of rice and/or canned veggies? Check the international section. No luck at your big chain? Try the Mom and Pop smaller, local stores. Also: international stores, liquor stores (packies for you Dorchester, MA folks), etc... BE KIND. ESPECIALLY to your clerks and stockists. They are frontline people and with the public FOR HOURS A DAY. CHECK with your neighbors to make sure they are okay. You will need each other. Get your groceries and GO HOME. #mydayinLA #coronapocalypse #gelsonsweho at 6:45 a.m. A truck was JUST pulling in as we pulled into the parking lot. (at Gelsons West Hollywwod) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9zOElXgXj7/?igshid=1o4ozicpw2pbr

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Questions I had before attending NU: Part One

As a big sister, I’ve never had a person growing up who I could ask about relevant life things. Like taking the California driver’s test (spoiler: I passed) or standardized testing tips (spoiler: I passed). But now I’m here to answer your questions about NU!

What is a middler?

A middler is a third-year completing a five-year undergraduate program (because they’re in the middle of their college years). Notice that we don’t say sophomore, junior, or senior. We call students freshmen/first-years, second-years, third-years, etc. I guess you could say we go to Hogwarts.

With people coming and going for co-op, is it hard to keep friends?

If you’ve been reading my blog a while, you know I always keep it real with you. Lots of people co-op in Boston, but many study or co-op abroad. You have to put in the work to keep in touch with people, like you’ll do with your friends from home. If your friends are also away from Boston, it’s easier because you’ll both pick up where you left off. But if your friends are in Boston and you’re not, sometimes life goes on for them. You just have to work a little harder to keep in touch.

Which LLC should I pick?

I’ve touched on this before, but LLCs won’t really impact your experience here. It will determine where you live, and then everyone will forget about it except for a few LLC-related RA programs. Seriously, don’t sweat it.

I’m coming from out-of-state. Where should I buy stuff for my room?

Target on Boylston is an absolute zoo during back-to-school season. And they actually raise prices on college dorm supplies during this time. Head to the Dorchester Target or try Bed Bath & Beyond. Make sure you have a BBB coupon! You can preorder stuff from BBB and pick it up in store, but their items are a bit overpriced. I recommend buying things from Target or shipping items from Amazon first, then checking out BBB. I can write a packing list if you’re interested...just let me know.

What’s the deal with the meal plan? Is 10 swipes per week enough?

10 swipes is more than enough. You won’t have the time (or desire, after a while) to go to the dining hall or other meal plan establishment more than 10 times a week. You can use your dining dollars to buy food around campus if you want to spice it up. You can redeem swipes at Rebecca’s, Cafe Crossing, Outtakes, or one of the three dining halls (International Village, Stetson West, Stetson East).

Where can I buy food?

We have a decent selection of grocery stores near campus: Trader Joe’s, Star Market, Whole Foods, and Stop & Shop. There are too many restaurants in Boston to name them all here, but some of my favorites are Veggie Galaxy, Blaze (#basic, I know), Mumbai Spice, and Earl’s. Unrelated PSA: Milk Bar opened a new store in Harvard Square and it is earth shattering! Go eat a compost cookie, crack pie, and birthday truffle!!

Want more? Here’s part two.

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Timeline Back to School Month August 2021

Back to School Month timeline

0B1918

0BElementary school became a requirement

0BThis was the first year that all 50 states required students to complete their elementary schooling.

0B1727

0BThe first school for girls opened

0BUrsuline Academy, a Catholic school in New Orleans established by the Sister of the Order of Saint Ursula, became the first school to open exclusively for girls.

0B1639

Tax dollars support a North American school

0BThe Mather School, founded in Dorchester, MA, became the first public school in North America supported by tax dollars.

0B1636

0BHigher education began

Clergyman John Harvard founded his namesake Ivy League school in Cambridge, MA. 0B

0B1635

0BThe first school is founded

0BBoston Latin School opened its doors, becoming the first public school in the colonies.

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Today: Price Rite market place open for purchasers in Fields Corner mall

The new Price tag Ceremony grocery store — which opens these days in Fields Corner— alerts the return of a grocery current market operated by a family with roots in the community that go again to the 1940s.

The Slawsby family, which operates grocery retailers in Roxbury, Roslindale, and Brockton, has been doing work due to the fact early 2020 to renovate and re-open a grocery store in the 20,000-square-foot place closest to the Geneva Avenue side of the nearly 250,000- sq.-foot mall. It fills a huge grocery void in the community still left when America’s Foodstuff Basket shut in January 2019.

The grocery store was supposed to open up past May, but when Covid settled into the region, the renovations ended up paused, also. But, the work and the subsequent inspections are now full. Together with a entirely refurbished keep, the industry delivers 40 jobs— quite a few of them for neighbors who can stroll there from the dense residential aspect streets all around Fields Corner and Bowdoin-Geneva.

The opening reunites two famous Dorchester families energetic in the foods market place company in the neighborhood for pretty much a total century.

The Cifrino family history in meals retail started in Boston just before the 1st Earth War, claimed Tom Cifrino, who manages the Fields Station LLC, which owns the Geneva Avenue property.

“My grandfather started out as a butcher on Salem Street in the North Stop,” he explained to the Reporter in a recent interview. “He ended up with about 10 to 12 butcher stores close to the city. And then in the 1920s he started off the Uphams Corner Market place. There was a e book, ‘Once Upon a Keep,’ that claimed it was the initial supermarket in the nation. No matter if it’s correct or not, I really do not know.”

The Cifrinos opened two more outlets in Quincy and in Cambridge and soon prior to the Great Melancholy, sold all of them to the parent corporation of First Nationwide Outlets.

In 1934, the Cifrinos obtained again into the supermarket business enterprise, setting up a new structure to house a market place alongside Gallivan Boulevard — which was then a freshly designed roadway on a creating marshland top to Neponset Circle. The Supreme Sector opened in 1935 and quickly stores of the exact same brand title multiplied across the bigger Boston region, including a retail store at the Geneva Avenue website, on land which had been used to house street autos.

“The property adjacent to Fields Corner station was a trolley car or truck barn,” Tom Cifrino said. “Ten or 12 yrs back, when we did a important refurbishment, we redid the parking whole lot. At the time we had to dig it up and we observed underneath the asphalt all cobblestones and railroad ties. They have been nonetheless there from when it was a trolley car or truck barn. The trolley automobiles went out of the barn and went up and down Dorchester Ave.”

Harold Slawsby’s father ran a meat sector at 1498 Dorchester Ave., a precursor to the Capitol chain that his family later on opened. In addition to the Fields Corner place, the family operated shops on Morrissey Blvd.— a building that now houses a liquor retail store and a CVS— and at Morton Street and Gallivan Boulevard, a web page now occupied by Norfolk Components.

“We’ve normally desired a retail store in Dorchester and we have appeared high and low,” Harold Slawsby instructed the Reporter in a 2015 job interview.

This 7 days, Harold’s son Jonathan — who will run the Dorchester shop with his brother, Todd, said that they regard this as a “homecoming.”

His mom grew up in St. Ann parish, he mentioned. And he and Todd slash their enamel in the enterprise doing work at the former Capitol Marketplace on Morrissey Boulevard— which is now a CVS.

“We’re getting even extra excited as we see folks striving to arrive in,” reported Slawsby on Tuesday. “It does really feel like a homecomingand for my brother and I, it feels like the appropriate area to establish the enterprise that we want to have making use of this store as the cornerstone.”

He is most very pleased of how the renovations have “opened up” the front of the keep.

“It helps make a substantial variance in the sense,” reported Slawsby. “It’s a lot much less claustrophobic. It feels a lot more of a unified house with a middle aisle that breaks it up and highlights merchandise.”

Tom Cifrino claims he has identified Harold Slawsby considering that the 1970s, when “his father and my father had been each in the grocery store organization in the 50’s and 60’s collectively, as welcoming competition.”

“The Slawsbys are Dorchester individuals,” claims Cifrino, who himself has fond reminiscences of working in his own family’s markets when he was as young as 15.

“It was fantastic. I can don’t forget likely up on Thanksgiving, I applied to offer Turkey dinners for Thanksgiving. There was a total crew in there on Thanksgiving morning, they would begin at five o’clock in the early morning cooking turkeys and stuffing and mashed potatoes and gravy. And they’d cook dinner and market them to individuals right until about a single o’clock when all people took their have turkey, went home, and experienced their Turkey evening meal.”

The new Value Ceremony Marketplace fills the last vacant space in the Fields Corner shopping mall.

“We have 11 stores and they’re all occupied yet again,” Cifrino instructed the Reporter. “As a subject of simple fact, we even stuffed in the Payless Sneakers- which went bankrupt two decades back- with a nearby natural beauty supply business, Mattapan Splendor Offer. He has six or seven other retail suppliers, but he is nearby, he’s not a nationwide tenant.

“And from what I fully grasp, it’s incredible. I necessarily mean, I’ve absent through his keep or three or 4 occasions, and if you want to acquire a wig, which is the area to go.”

Jonathan Slawsby states that he and his group are “extremely excited” to be partnering with Tom Cifrino and his family after once more.

“He’s been an awesome lover by this final year, really knowledge as considerably as our timeline and proactive with our eyesight for updating the area,” claimed Slawsby. “We have a extremely lengthy expression lease- 30 many years if we work out the selections. Each sides are aware of that and happy about it. It’s an investment decision from each of us to continue that family romance significantly into the future.”

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Christmas comes early as people rush to buy trees

Pete Hyde (r) says he is in a powerful place to fulfill hovering demand for bushes

Enterprise is booming for Pete Hyde, proprietor of Trinity Road Christmas Timber in Dorset.

Yearly he runs a pop-up website within the centre of Dorchester to promote the bushes he grows.

This yr, regardless of the necessity for social distancing and hand sanitiser, in addition to outlets being closed, he is already bought practically a 3rd extra bushes than regular for this level within the season.

And Christmas tree growers throughout the UK say they’re having a bumper yr.

“This yr all people is greater than ever decided to have a unbelievable Christmas,” says Pete. “Individuals are shopping for bushes earlier and individuals are prepared to push the boat out.”

“Quite a lot of prospects say that is the primary time they’ve had an actual tree.”

However just some weeks in the past Pete was “petrified” that prospects would purchase their bushes at a grocery store or backyard centre. As important retailers, they’ve been allowed to commerce throughout lockdown, whereas folks like him initially weren’t.

After lobbying from growers, the federal government relented and since then the spruces and firs have been flying off the farms.

Heather Parry from the British Christmas Tree Growers Affiliation (BCTGA) says a number of of her 320 members say it’s the busiest they’ve ever been.

UK farms normally promote about eight million bushes annually. This yr they predict it might attain as many as 10 million.

Growers say wholesale enterprise to retailers is already 24% greater than this time final yr.

It may very well be that some gross sales are coming earlier as folks search out a tree whereas they wait to be allowed to buy groceries once more.

York Christmas Timber have bought extra bushes than regular to each wholesale patrons and native prospects

Ms Parry thinks there are different causes too.

Fewer individuals are going overseas, and there are a lot of extra smaller gatherings happening as an alternative of enormous household get-togethers, requiring extra, smaller bushes, together with smaller turkeys.

And extra folks need the odor of the outside and the sense that they’re doing one thing “genuine” this yr. Some individuals are even shopping for an additional tree this yr, she says.

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“Your property is extra your fort this yr greater than ever earlier than,” she says. “And you have time to make paperchains, bake the salt dough decorations.”

York Christmas Timber, which has equipped this yr’s tree to 10 Downing Road, has been so busy “there’s been no time to breathe” says proprietor Olly Combe.

“My wholesale prospects are ringing again, wanting extra bushes, and I am getting enquiries from folks I’ve by no means bought to earlier than.”

“We lower bushes each week – we are able to management the speed they arrive out of the sector at. We will not management the speed prospects come down the drive at.”

It takes as much as 10 years to develop bushes from saplings, so he must be cautious not expend an excessive amount of of subsequent yr’s shares.

Tree being trimmed at Pimms Christmas tree farm in Matfield Kent

So may the availability of bushes run out?

Ms Parry says imports from Denmark have been negatively affected by a brand new pressure of Covid-19 discovered at mink farms in the identical area the bushes develop. On high of that, slower processing at UK ports, because of the virus, has brought about delays.

She thinks provides might get “tight” however everybody who desires a tree ought to have the ability to get one.

“So long as you continue to have growers who can harvest on demand, we’ll be OK to fulfill calls for of market,” says Pete Hyde in Dorset.

He nonetheless at the moment has the total vary on provide.

“If you would like a good-shaped tree with good needle retention, then go for a Nordmann fir – which might be 80% of the market, it is what everybody has.”

“If you would like a slimmer tree with a stunning odor, go for a Fraser fir or a silver fir,” he says.

And if you would like one thing with a extra tiered look? It is the noble fir – though most of us do not need to hear any extra about tiers, even on bushes.

Pete himself does not hassle deciding. He’ll have three bushes of three totally different varieties, dotted round his home. That’s, after all, assuming he is bought sufficient left.

from Growth News https://growthnews.in/christmas-comes-early-as-people-rush-to-buy-trees/ via https://growthnews.in

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Daily Table: An Innovative Approach to Accessing Healthy Food at the Grocery Store - Spare Change News

Daily Table: An Innovative Approach to Accessing Healthy Food at the Grocery Store – Spare Change News

In the years after his 2012 retirement, Doug Rauch began to formulate a plan for a grocery store with healthy food options sold at a reasonable price. Three years later, in 2015, the former president of Trader Joe’s opened Daily Table, a non-profit retail grocery store, in Dorchester. In 2018, a second location opened in Roxbury, and according to Michael Malmberg, current chief operating…

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How Grocery Stores Are Adapting To Sustainable Practices?

Sustainability has become a central focus for businesses across all industries, and the grocery sector is no exception. Grocery stores are increasingly adopting sustainable practices to reduce their environmental impact, promote local economies, and offer their customers healthier, more eco-friendly options.

The transformation is visible even in the local Best Grocery Store in Dorchester, MA, where green initiatives reshape the shopping experience. This article explores the strategies grocery stores implement to adapt to the demands of a more environmentally conscious world.

Reducing Single-Use Plastics

One of the most significant changes in grocery stores is the reduction of single-use plastics. Stores are gradually phasing out plastic bags, straws, and cutlery, producing bags favouring biodegradable or reusable alternatives. This shift helps minimise waste and aligns with a broader movement towards reducing plastic pollution.

In grocery stores, customers are encouraged to bring their reusable bags, and compostable packaging options are becoming increasingly available. By providing eco-friendly alternatives, the store is helping the community transition from plastic dependency and setting a standard for environmentally responsible shopping.

Supporting Local and Organic Produce

Sourcing local and organic produce is another strategy grocery stores adopt to enhance their sustainability efforts. By partnering with local farmers, stores can reduce the carbon footprint associated with long-distance transportation and support the local economy. Furthermore, organic farming practices help preserve soil health and reduce the use of harmful chemicals.

At a grocery store in Dorchester, MA, the availability of locally sourced and organic products has increased noticeably. These efforts provide customers with fresher and healthier options and demonstrate the store’s commitment to promoting sustainable agriculture. By prioritising local produce, the store offers a solution that benefits consumers and the environment.

Implementing Zero-Waste Initiatives

Food waste is a major issue in the grocery industry, and stores are taking action to address this through zero-waste initiatives. From donating surplus food to local shelters to implementing composting programs, grocery stores are finding innovative ways to minimise food waste.

Zero-waste efforts are visible in a grocery store in Dorchester, MA, through partnerships with food banks and composting programs for organic waste. The store also offers discounts on “imperfect” produce, which may not meet visual standards but is still perfectly edible.

These initiatives reduce waste and make healthy food options accessible to a broader range of customers, reflecting the store’s commitment to community welfare and environmental responsibility.

Investing in Renewable Energy Solutions

To minimise their environmental footprint, grocery stores increasingly invest in renewable energy sources like solar panels and wind turbines. Transitioning to renewable energy reduces greenhouse gas emissions and demonstrates a commitment to sustainable operations.

The grocery store has taken proactive measures by integrating renewable energy solutions into its infrastructure, such as solar panels to power lighting and refrigeration systems. These efforts not only reduce operational costs in the long term but also contribute to reducing the store’s carbon emissions. Such investments highlight the store’s forward-thinking approach to sustainable business practices.

Expanding Refillable and Bulk Product Stations

Another trend in sustainable grocery practices is the expansion of bulk and refill stations. These stations allow customers to bring their containers and purchase the exact amount of products they need. This method helps reduce packaging waste and offers consumers a more flexible way to shop sustainably.

Bulk stations for grains, nuts, and eco-friendly cleaning products are increasingly common at Dorchester grocery stores. By promoting this shopping style, the store reduces plastic waste and encourages customers to be more conscious about their consumption habits.

These refillable stations provide an innovative and practical approach to reducing the environmental impact of everyday shopping.

Conclusion: Paving the Way for Sustainable Grocery Shopping

The grocery sector is transforming, with sustainability at the forefront of its efforts. By reducing plastic usage, promoting local and organic produce, implementing zero-waste initiatives, investing in renewable energy, and expanding refillable stations, grocery stores are setting a new standard for environmentally conscious business practices.

A Grocery store in Dorchester, MA, exemplifies this trend, demonstrating that even local stores can significantly impact through sustainable initiatives. These practices support the environment and offer customers healthier, more responsible choices. As grocery stores evolve, they play a crucial role in building a more sustainable future for our communities and the planet.

Source  - https://grocery-store-in-ma.blogspot.com/2024/10/budget-friendly-shopping-tips-for.html

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Dorchester Food Co-op, Boston’s only member-owned grocery store, celebrates grand opening - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

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How To Make Your Grocery Shopping Safe In Thread Of Covid-19?

While scientists deal with immunization for the novel coronavirus, the ideal approach to forestall disease remains to maintain a calculated distance from introduction to COVID-19. That implies remaining at home and rehearsing social separating. Be that as it may, what occurs when you need basic things, for example, food and medication? What would you be able to do to ensure yourself while shopping for food and getting different things done during the COVID-19 pandemic? Indeed, even in isolation, we as a whole need to eat. As we as a whole work to shield ourselves and friends and family from COVID-19, it's ideal to confine our excursions to the Grocery Store Westwood, MA to as not many as could reasonably be expected. An incredible alternative accessible right now is to arrange food and goods on the web. Having your food conveyed or prepared to get significantly lessens your contact with others. Above all else, don't go to the grocery store on the off chance that you feel wiped out. It might appear glaringly evident, yet please remain at home on the off chance that you are unwell. On the off chance that you are self-confining, ask a companion or relative to drop off food supplies at your front entryway. Before Showing Up at The Store: If you can, go all alone. Leave your kids and other relatives at home. If you have them close by, bring your hand sanitizer and wipes. While You Are in The Store Clean your basic food item truck (particularly the handle) utilizing wipes. If you don't have wipes, be aware of your hands. Abstain from contacting your face or specific things. Do not utilize your telephone to store your basic food item list; give a valiant effort to keep your hands off your own things while shopping. Practice social removing. Keep 6 feet separated from individual customers. Only contact things you intend to buy (be aware of getting things and putting them down). During Checkout Continue to rehearse social removing; keep good ways from individual customers. Utilize self-checkout if conceivable, as most stores are allocating staff to wipe down stations after every client. Pay to utilize a cashless choice (like Apple Pay or Android Pay) If you need to utilize a card, wipe it down when used. In the event that you use money, wash your hands a short time later. Leaving the store: Use hand sanitizer before getting in your vehicle, contacting your own things, or guiding wheel. Wash your hands at the earliest opportunity. Showing Up Home Currently, the CDC doesn't suggest cleaning down food things as you are bound to contract COVID-19 from individuals than surfaces. Wash your hands in the wake of unloading your goods. Wash products of the soil before eating them. And you got it! Wash your hands before eating or setting up any food. Summing up, If you want to become safe from the thread of COVID-19, then avoid visiting Grocery Store Dorchester, MA if it's not necessary to move onto online shopping and make you safe. Stay home, stay safe. Read the full article

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Sustainable cities

Green cities or sustainable cities emerged in the 80s and 90s. The city focuses on environmental awareness, and multi-faceted fight against local forms of pollution as well as the fight against global warming. (Smart Cities Of Tomorrow)

 According to the United Development Program, being a Sustainable City means “investment in public transport, creating green public spaces, urban planning and management. The aim of this kind of  city is to create the smallest possible footprint and to produce the lowest quantity of pollution, to efficiently use land, compost used materials, recycle or convert waste-to-energy and make the cities overall contribution to climate change minimal. (Beaumont, P; 2018)

Making cities greener is only helping the environment. It’s something everyone is thinking about. In march there was a climate mars in The Netherlands. 10.000 people where in Amsterdam to walk for the climate change. The mars was an initiative from Greenpeace and Oxfam Novib. Their purpose, they want more attention for the climate issue, both in politics and business. (Geels, M; 2019)

 Cars no longer drive urban planning—today it’s “people-oriented design,” says Neil Angus, a Boston environmental planner who specializes in implementing the LEED neighbourhood-focused sustainability standard. “That still accommodates cars, but people come first.”

“It’s design on a pedestrian scale, with narrower streets, and pushing buildings closer to the street and to each other,” says Angus. “That in turn brings people closer together—the front porch concept.” Other aspects include a grocery store within walking distance, proximity to transit, high-performing green buildings, green space and trees along streets, and space for cyclists. In Boston’s diverse Dorchester neighbourhood, the 13-block Talbot-Norfolk Triangle (TNT) is piloting that model of transformation in a historically underserved area. “We flipped the script,” says David Queeley of the area’s redevelopment corporation. “Why can’t this happen in low-income neighbourhoods?” Spurred in part by the arrival of a commuter rail line along one of its borders, the community is converting vacant buildings and aging housing while building on economic opportunities that transit connectivity and revitalization bring—without displacing long-time residents. At least 100 affordable housing units have been built.

“Boston has the largest income disparity of any city and it’s the fastest gentrifying,” says Queeley. “If we don’t do something differently, it’s going to look homogenous.” Inclusivity and innovation define renewal efforts. “We layer different sustainability strategies,” says Queeley. The Men of Colour Initiative tackles TNT’s unemployment rate for men, which approaches 50 percent. Energy efficiency was improved by retrofitting more than 500 homes. For a safer pedestrian zone, TNT is part of Boston’s Slow Streets initiative, which enforces a neighborhood speed limit of 20 miles per hour. Residents and activists have helped create a sense of place with a park that’s become a hub for activity, mural projects, and an urban agriculture site. Bus shelters were outfitted with green roofs, a greenway trail system is under way, and a tree-planting program has also led to jobs through horticulture training. (Kolczak, A; 2017)

Sustainable cities is something everybody needs to know. The climate is changing and everywhere people are demonstrating for a better policy for the environment. Making the city sustainable is a step in the right direction. It’s a trend which will last long, because sustainability is something that will stick with a lot of people. Helping the environment also profits a better future for not only ourselves, but also the next generation.

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9        Foster Avenue

Here’s where life gets a bit fuzzy for me. I can’t remember if I finished 2nd grade at P.S. 208 and then started 3rd grade at P.S. 152, or if we moved before the school year ended. We moved almost every year.  I think that was because the rents went up every year. I tend to think I completed 2nd grade at 208.

 *My thinking is now based on a brief phone conversation I just had with Al.

He has been reading my blog. And called to tell me to keep up the writing! He was very complimentary and encouraging. But some of my memory was faulty regarding the Old Man (referring to Daddy). Naturally, I told him, “Don’t tell me, you remember things your way, and I remember things my way…but what about Daddy?”

He told me, that Daddy didn’t go into the Army until we moved from E. 48th St. to Foster Ave.

 That got me wondering why I don’t have a memory of Daddy on Linden Boulevard. As I told you, I remember those nighttime air raid drills, sitting in front of the fake fireplace…there’s no Daddy in those memories. I suppose that’s why I thought he was in the army.”

 Here’s Al’s explanation: After Daddy graduated from St. John’s University Law School, he was working for a title company doing title searches. During that time, Daddy was also very active in trying to unionize the lawyers in Brooklyn. That activity led to him being blacklisted by law firms in New York. In order to survive, he took a job as a ticket receiver for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He worked second shift, which translates into him hardly ever being home when I was awake. Ergo, mistakenly, I thought it was then, on Linden Blvd., when he was in the Army. Actually, according to my brother, Mother and Daddy split while we were living on 48th Street. Daddy moved downtown, and let the Draft Board know he was no longer living with us.  His draft status went from 3A to 1A, which got him drafted into the Army pretty quickly.

 Thanks to Al, my memory has been “corrected”. I realize I am deferring to him being older, and therefore, he remembers those things more accurately than me. When doing this, there is a caveat or two to think about: Is it always true the oldest sibling has the best memory? And, memories are “truths” which may be important “facts” in the foundation of our individual thinking and decision making.

 Anyway, we moved from E. 48th St. to Foster Avenue. To be exact, to a 5th floor apartment at 2015 Foster Avenue- the first time for me to live west of Flatbush Avenue. In fact, the first corner west of us was Ocean Avenue. I’m pretty sure 2015 Foster Avenue was on the northwest corner of E.21st Street and Foster Avenue.  

 So, I did start 3rd Grade at P.S. 152. For some reason, I’ve always thought 152 was a real progressive public school. Us kids would either go to school for 4 hours a day, in the mornings or 4 hours a day in the afternoons. If you had a hard time learning what they wanted you to learn, you would have to go to help sessions. So the school ran two 4-hour school sessions, a morning session and an afternoon session, with an hour help session in between, around noon. Other than that, I cannot remember a single thing about that school. But I have several pieces of memory about living on Foster Avenue.

 The apartment house was 6 stories. I think we lived on the 5th floor. On the street level there was an awning, shaped like a quonset hut, with the apartment house address.  It looked pretty classy to me.  Funny thing, about two blocks up at Dorchester Rd and E 21st, there was an apartment house with the exact same awning, only its address said “2015 Dorchester Rd”.

Probably, both buildings had the same owner. What is incredible to me is that my Uncle Wally and Aunt Harriet lived on the first floor in the Dorchester Rd apartments.

 It was at the apartment on Foster Avenue when we found out my Uncle Lloyd became “missing in action”.  He was a navigator on a B-24 Liberator that went down in the China Sea. If my memory serves me right, we found that out on D-Day.  Lloyd was a superb football player, and had he lived, he would have played for the New York Giants… of this, I was certain.

 On the 4th of July, there was lots of excitement for me on Foster Avenue. Firecrackers were everywhere. But my favorite was a thing that looked like a badminton shuttlecock.  It had feathers and a head made out of metal. There was also a metal cup that was place over the head. To use it, either match tips (from wood match sticks) or caps were put on the head. Then, the cup would be placed over it.  You would then throw the whole thing in the air, and when it came down hitting the street pavement…BOOM… and you then could watch the shuttlecock, feathers and all, shoot directly up, stories high! Some of them got almost as high as the apartment house.  I never saw those particular fireworks anywhere else in the City or on Long Island.

 My only other recollection related to Foster Avenue is what Flatbush Avenue looked like to me.

Flatbush was just a couple of short blocks east. It had grocery stores with fruit and vegetable stands outside on the sidewalk. The interesting thing to me was so many of the people spoke Yiddish. At least, that’s what I think today. Since my grandmother lived close by, at the time, I assumed everyone was speaking Hungarian because that is what I thought she spoke.  Today, it makes more sense to me that the language was Yiddish.