How do you justify....

Drano wrote: [quote=nice dude]

Have we learned nothing from the Meow Wars?

Jackson says: "I'm a lover, not a fighter".

Drunken Guest is a revolutionary Marxist sworn to liberate foodstuffs from the corrupt capitalist hegemon on behalf of the oppressed proletariat.

In practice, this consists of palming Snickers bars at the local Yemeni-owned bodega.

Carnivore wrote: Maybe Drunken Guest is a freegan. He doesn't shop because he gets all his food via urban foraging.

Isn't a freegan a hobo with a trust fund?

Maybe he's a Steppenwolf. One side wants nothing but booze and desperate women, while the other side fights to maintain a bourgeois balance of community consumerism and ambiance elevation.

Hopefully, the Steppwolfian desire for suicide comes with the package...

alafairnadia wrote: but ... $80 on booze? that's nothing. that'll get you one bottle of frickin' white star at the bubble lounge.

I dunno... Drunken Guest seems like a well drink kind of guy.
He's definitely no El Flailey. :twisted:

Drunken Guest is kensingtonmom.

Boygabriel wrote: I resent people who buy produce at grocery store chains that has been trucked all the way from iowa or california.

What right do you have to clog up the truck lane on I-95 with your cross-country produce when we have lovely local farms right here in NJ and NY?

Yeah, but what else is Iowa good for?

Iowa is good for producing food for Iowa and thus preventing FD trucks from uglifying Iowan neighborhoods.

Boygabriel wrote: I resent people who buy produce at grocery store chains that has been trucked all the way from iowa or california.

What right do you have to clog up the truck lane on I-95 with your cross-country produce when we have lovely local farms right here in NJ and NY?

So we can clog up I-95 with cars, to get to the "lovely local farms"? Even the stuff from the almighty food Co-op gets trucked in.

And the elves don't bring the local produce, et al, to the greenmarkets.

or do they?

bklyngirl wrote: [quote=Boygabriel]I resent people who buy produce at grocery store chains that has been trucked all the way from iowa or california.

What right do you have to clog up the truck lane on I-95 with your cross-country produce when we have lovely local farms right here in NJ and NY?

So we can clog up I-95 with cars, to get to the "lovely local farms"? Even the stuff from the almighty food Co-op gets trucked in.

And the elves don't bring the local produce, et al, to the greenmarkets.

or do they?

my bad, i meant: why do you clog up I-80 with your cross-country produce?

reduce your highway clogging footprint.

buy local produce.

Boygabriel wrote: [quote=bklyngirl][quote=Boygabriel]I resent people who buy produce at grocery store chains that has been trucked all the way from iowa or california.

What right do you have to clog up the truck lane on I-95 with your cross-country produce when we have lovely local farms right here in NJ and NY?

So we can clog up I-95 with cars, to get to the "lovely local farms"? Even the stuff from the almighty food Co-op gets trucked in.

And the elves don't bring the local produce, et al, to the greenmarkets.

or do they?

my bad, i meant: why do you clog up I-80 with your cross-country produce?

reduce your highway clogging footprint.

buy local produce.
Unles you grow it in your own back yard, or WALK over to the Red Hook Farm and volunteer, you have no justification in complaining about traffic created by food deliveries. It doesn't matter WHICH highway the trucks take - the food must be delivered here somehow. Even to the "lovely bodegas"

Subject: #2 Lets Make A List

2. I have to agree in spirit. We need to keep Brooklyn non-corporate. The majority of small businesses in Park Slope and the surrounding neighborhoods are great in value and selection. There are gems everywhere. Further, many of these businesses are the very reason why so many people have come to Brooklyn over the years, and they deserve our support and thanks.



Mr. Lee's Fruit and Vegetable Store on 7th Avenue b/w 11-12th Street has the best vegetables in Brooklyn. He and his wife opened the first Fruit and Vegetable Store in Park Slope, and they have spent over 20 years doing what they do best: the best fruits and vegetables. And best of all, you can meet the hand that feeds you.

Fresh Direct, Walmart, CVS, Radio Shack, ETC ...

Corporate Stores contribute very little to the Slope that we cannot find somewhere else ... somewhere local.

Subject: Stop With That? Shoot, I'll End With That!

I was trying to make a reasonable observation from experience. The revitalization of Brooklyn, over the last 20 years, owes much of its success to the small business community. Outside corporate interests, reguardless of their good faith, can be detrimental to the economic and the social growth of Park Slope, and the surrounding neighborhoods. You missed the point.

Having said that, I believe long term landowners have a VERY LARGE PART in shaping the future of Park Slope, and SOME OF US don't take these issues lightly. When you spend as many years as WE HAVE fighting for this neighborhood, back in the 70's and 80's, when most people chose not to live here, you might know what I am talking about.

I'm talking about communty. I am talking about a better place than the one corporate American is offering.

I'm talking about keeping Brooklyn BROOKLYN

Fresh direct, sure ... use it.
CVS? Hey ... clean your fucking sidewalks, and be a neighbor
Walmart? Too big .. no way

Of course, you could just go down to Mr. Lee's and get the best anyway.
I'll end with that.

Subject: Re: Stop With That? Shoot, I'll End With That!

charlesbklyn wrote: I was trying to make a reasonable observation from experience. The revitalization of Brooklyn, over the last 20 years, owes much of its success to the small business community.

I'm talking about communty. I am talking about a better place than the one corporate American is offering.

I'm talking about keeping Brooklyn BROOKLYN

Fresh direct, sure ... use it.
CVS? Hey ... clean your fucking sidewalks, and be a neighbor
Walmart? Too big .. no way

Of course, you could just go down to Mr. Lee's and get the best anyway.
I'll end with that.

I can't wait to see the long line of happy people waiting to get into Whole Foods, which is WalMart in for the upscale. BIG BOX, BABY

WhyFi wrote: BwaaHaHaHaHa - ah, the ever-so-effective 'before you gentrifiers/hipsters/suburbanites came along...' argument...
[quote=charlesbklyn]Outside corporate interests, reguardless of their good faith, can be detrimental to the economic and the social growth of Park Slope, and the surrounding neighborhoods.

So, not arguing for an influx of large stores, but if these big corporations don't bring anything valuable to the table, how is it that they're successful? Obviously people patronize them because they can get something (product or service) there that they don't get elsewhere. Small business owners need to stop hiding their heads in the sand on this and use it to their advantage, rather than trying to rally the troops against the big, evil machine.

VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME

The big retailers can sell for a lot less because they can purchase inventory for their entire chain, rather than just one small store. This can result in significant price cuts. Your neighborhood bodega buys full wholesale at Jetro, which, although cheap, is still about double what a large chain store pays for their goods.

The lower prices result in a larger volume of sales, which in turn brings in a larger amount of revenue overall