Wausau Corner Grocery Store

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What is Downtown Grocery.com ™ ?

* Downtown Grocery ™ is a small market with big ideas!
It's an "old-fashioned corner grocery store" inside a windowed storefront with wood floors and tin ceilings.

1 Food!
We sell food! Foods that are local, regional, organic, natural, raw, and whole!
--- Including fruits, vegetables, milk, eggs, cheese, meats, grains, frozen foods, bulk, and dry goods.
--- It's a Local Organic Grocery Store & Deli with an "Everyday Farmers Market" open seven-days-a-week!

2 Local & organic plus our own farm
Offering a wide assortment of produce from our own farm: MoonShadow Farm, MOSA Certified Organic, and many other local and regional farmers, growers, producers, and bakers.

3 Fresh, local, organic
We emphasize fresh, local or organically grown/raised products to support our local Foodshed.

4 Quick meals and a slow life
Enjoy fast-affordable breakfast, Lunch & Dinner prepared in our kitchen; enjoy local & regional coffees and tea; share good food for a "Slow Life", plus two friendly reminders:
--- Our Kitchen prepares Vegetarian Fast-Food using mostly local and/or organic ingredients.
--- Plus, the stocks for our soups are "made-from-scratch" in our own Kitchen. Enjoy!

5 Your Grocery List and a Big Food Selection
Downtown Grocery.com™ is the source for your grocery short-list: that list of items scrawled on refrigerator chalk-boards, mentioned in voice mails, or noted in emails. Our market features a wide selection of produce and groceries including fruits & vegetables, milk & eggs, meats & bread, frozen & dry goods, chips & salsa, and beer & wine. Plus everyday needs such as toilet paper, light bulbs, toothpaste and soap.

6 Information-website
Visit our information-packed website at www.downtowngrocery.com.

7 An old-fashioned neighborhood grocery store
Downtown Grocery is "an old-fashioned neighborhood grocery store" emphazes local-organic products grown by local & regional farmers and producers or prepared in other local kitchens. Our own kitchen prepares Vegetarian Deli Foods for Breakfast and Lunch & Dinner plus take-home items, such as daily-made soups available in our freezer section!

8 "One of the Best Retail/Artistic Blocks in Town"
The 607 Third Street storefront is ideal because we're next to Sweets on Third and across from Back When Café, Terradea Aveda Salon & Spa, Art-Books-and-Banter, Rillings Shades, Evolutions in Design, and Estate Du Jour.

9 Downtown Grocery ™ is owned by a FARMER and an ARCHITECT

- Farmer Blaine Tornow is one of the two co-owners of Downtown Grocery. He also owns Moonshadow Farm (MOSA Certified Organic) and Tornow Forest Products, both located west of Wausau. Tornow Forest Products supplied lumber used to outfit our market with shelving, case-work and built-in cabinets!
- Architect Kevin Korpela is the other owner of Downtown Grocery and runs an idea services firm, ObservatoryDrive.com. Kevin also serves as a volunteer on the ChalkFest Wausau Organizing Committee: a two-day street-chalk festival held each Summer on the 400 Block/City Square.
- Plus a Creative Grocery Team of creative and friendly chefs, cashiers, and organizers.

10 Customer Communication
We provide shoppers with good and valued information and we welcome shoppers to discuss questions and concerns with members of our Grocery Team or email your ideas to Kevin Korpela. Plus, read our E-News (Newsletters sent by E-mail) or sign-up to receive regular newsletters via email.

11 Local Food Economy
"We feature local and regional farmers and producers to nurture an earth-friendly social place for sharing food ideas and growing a local food economy! Hey, by the way, farmer's rule!"

12 A good neighbor
Connects place with people, strengthens farm to markets, reinforces downtown!