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melanierafi committed Aug 29, 2024
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Brian knows that what makes Post-60 a success is its cooperative structure. He imbues the store with these principles, stocking shelves with honey cultivated by their neighbors, Graf Bees. He relays tales of a local woman who uses the store’s back room to make pizzas, keeping their freezer stocked with best-sellers. He sells pot holders made by a local resident of the nearby nursing home. Even the public schools source all their produce from Post-60. A pragmatist, Brian also recognizes how thin his margins are when competing with the buying power of monoliths like Hy Vee and Walmart. He sources 99% of the store’s products from Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG), but he struggles to get distributors to stock such a small store in an isolated area. Applying for grants and increasing their investor base allows Brian to make technological and personnel upgrades that make Post-60 more competitive like rebate coupons and pick-up/delivery services, but he’s also dreaming bigger. Emerson is not the only town in the area to lose a grocery store, and Brian’s vision for Post-60 is that it have the capacity one day to service surrounding towns that also suffer under conditions that make food access abysmal. Sharing buying power to attract more distributors, a wider grocery delivery radius, grocery vending machines, grocery lockers, to Brian, the only constraint on Post-60’s reach is finding ways to finance a small, local grocery store in a land of grocery giants.

“I mean, you always want to make money. But our motivation is to be a service to the community. So as long as we’re paying our bills, and we’re putting a little money in the bank, we’re ok. The rest is just to help the town succeed.”
“I mean, you always want to make money. But our motivation is to be a service to the community. So as long as we’re paying our bills, and we’re putting a little money in the bank, we’re ok. The rest is just to help the town succeed.”

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