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Healthy food blog » Gourmet Market Opens Downtown — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:15:33 +0000

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By: Ranald

Ranald — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:26:16 +0000

My dear Mr. Joseph, your mandate is clear! Do the right thing. This town needs entrepreneurial pioneers. My hope is that 10 years from now Gourmet Market will be the grizzled veteran on the block, happily and successfully mongering among businesses offering a well-educated and enlightened public choices beyond processed foods and plastic goods.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:52:06 +0000

Toward the Gourmet Market I am feeling somewhat maternal. I KNOW it’s not perfect. I KNOW it’s not the Trader Joe’s, Tidal Creek or Lovey’s Market after whose image Mr. Joseph (the store’s owner) said he modeled the store. But here it is—the market is open downtown where before there was no market.

Concerns of the market’s viability are in fact why I chose to write this article in the first place. Because I am so happy that a store with such potential has opened up downtown I want to do my part to encourage the shop’s owner to stay on that positive, health-minded track rather than morphing into a cigarette, gum, and Red Bull selling shop that panders to the downtown bar scene. I also want to get the word out that the market exists so that others may join in this mission of encouragement.

By making Mr. Joseph’s intentions known, I like to believe that I have done my (teeny) part in keeping the store’s owner accountable for his mission.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:53:12 +0000

I finally got in the market last week and was quite glad it was there. There product mix is a bit iffy. I think if they are downtown they better try to get some people to stop and get a sandwich or maybe a cup of coffee in the morning. they dont have these offerings as of yet. They also are sparsely stocked and it makes me wonder if they are going to be around.

By: David

David — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:41:56 +0000

Awesome interview Rachel… I as well was/am excited. Still, some downtowners I’ve spoken with are concerned with cost… especially some of the younger, health and environmentally conscious (they usually go hand in hand) ones who find difficulty in justifying the higher prices. The same people have this dilemma with TC, and unfortunately don’t shop there.

Will the Market make it in a location that is highly dependent on two downtown populations? One being the employee who leaves everyday at 5; The other being the foot-traffic, 24/7 crew?

By: rachel

rachel — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:24:39 +0000

Not every item in the store is organic. The mission of the market is to provide healthy snacks and food to customers and a majority of those items are organic.

By: Dane

Dane — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:35:26 +0000

Cool. Having been in there a couple times, I don’t know if the store is reliably organic, tho.