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Downtown Grocery News 11/9/2007
Hello Downtown Grocery Shopper,
We've new things to share with you about our continuing efforts to improve our store to maximize your shopper experience. Here's a summary:
- Construction Projects: Carpenter Matt Sanford, Sanford Craft Carpentery, and our two owners, Blaine and Kevin, have been busy these past two months with various construction projects
- Website projects: We've added several new pages
- Co-owner Kevin writes an essay about local food
- Co-owner Blaine is "Someone You Should Know" on Channel 9
- Mixed bag of new items plus three hot coffees & one hot tea To-Go
- New Case-to-go Program
- Mystery Box of Wine
- and Free-range Holiday Turkeys
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Construction: New Wall of Produce
Experience the Power of Produce with Central Wisconsin's largest wall of organic veggies. Sixteen selections such as cilantro, parsley, mustard greens, romaine lettuce, kale, beets and bunched carrots.
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Construction: Three new tables with six chairs
We've new places to sit to eat your breakfast, lunch or late night soup or salad. We've new bistro style tables with six chairs (ok, so three chairs still need our signature red coat of paint) located at our front window. Plus the three tables can be pushed together for a family meal or an afternoon meeting. The seating is a bit cosy and we've seen all tables filled at the same time.
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Construction: New window tables with four stools
Experience breakfast, lunch or late night soup or salad at a new table and stools with a nice view of Wausau's best looking streetscapes: the west side of the 600 Block of Third Street.
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Website: New "Links" page
Find a long list of Internet links to Links to Recipes, Food, Art and Sustainable Living. Links are listed alphabetically, we'll be adding more links and please contact us if you have suggestions. Our intent is to provide a comprehensive list of food related websites.
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Website: New "Local Links" page
Find a list of Internet links to Local Links to the Food, Art and Creative Economies. Links are listed alphabetically, we'll be adding more links and please contact us if you have suggestions.
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Website: New "Words" page
We've added a new link to words about food. For example, read a poem written about Easter cookies and nice words from two customers about cheese. We'll be adding more items and if you have suggestions or if you can write a nice poem or essay about food, please send a note.
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Co-owner Kevin writes an essay about local food
One of our store co-owners, Kevin, wrote an essay about local food for a new Wausau blog called Citizen Wausau. The essay is also located on our new "Words" page. The article is well-documented with multiple links to a variety of nice reading.
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Co-owner Blaine is "Someone You Should Know" on Channel 9
Store co-owner, Blaine, will be featured this Sunday, November 11, 2007, during the 10 PM News on Channel 9. Pam Warnke leads a regular series called "Someone You Should Know". This month Pam talks to Blaine about his Moonshadow Farm, his Hemlock Cabin, organic farming, and Downtown Grocery. Please set aside your Sunday to see why we at Downtown Grocery respect Blaine so much!!!
Click here to read about Pam Warnke whom is "Someone You Should Know"
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Mixed bag of new things at Downtown Grocery
We're continually improving our shopper experience and here's a list of several more recent projects:
- Added 50 new health and beauty items
- Added new items in grocery, dairy, meat, frozen, wine/beer and produce
- Added a new bulk spice table with 16 selections: buy in bulk, save money
- Added cubbies for soup cups and utensils courtesy Carpenter Matt
- And we've added more coffees served all day:
---- Coffee: Hazelnut, caffine, a classic flavor
---- Coffee: Sumatra, caffine, no acidity
---- Decaf Coffee: Costa Rica, complex taste
---- Tea: Red Bush (Rooibos) decaf hot tea
------- Rooibos tea has lemongrass, rosehips and licorce root...
------- ...plus oils from orange, tangerine and mango.
* Coffee is local roasted at Three Willows, Schofield
* Tea is from Rishi Tea, Milwaukee
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New Case-to-go Program
We like to give you, the shopper, the best value for your money, so we're introducing our Case-to-go Program. Pre-order a full case of any item in the entire store, or an item that we don't currently stock but that we can find, and we'll give you a 10% discount on the entire case. We've trialed the program to several customers in the past months and they've enjoyed the service and the cost savings.
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Mystery Wine Box
We like fun things at Downtown Grocey and our new Mystery Wine Box is our new favorite. For only $79.95 you'll receive an "exciting mixture of 12 bottles of domestic and imported wine and you must not peek prior to purchase." That's $6.67 per bottle and that's a great deal!
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Organic Free-Range Turkeys
This year we're again featuring the tasty Organic Free-Range Turkeys from Mary Pitman of "Marys Turkeys" in Fresno, California. We sold-out last year, so please pre-order your turkey today! We've two size ranges, 8-12 lbs and 12-16 lbs, both at $4.79/lb. The Pitman Family has been raising turkeys in the Central Valley of California since 1954. They have six turkey ranches and recently opened our own processing plant in August 2003. Because we are a small family owned business, they can personally give great customer service. The turkeys are raised the old fashioned way, free-range. Healthy for the turkeys...and for the people who eat them!
Click here to read about our Organic Free-Range Turkeys from the Pitman Family [not active]
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Eat well, eat local, eat organic and see you soon!
The Team at Downtown Grocery.com
--- An old-fashioned neighborhood grocery store
.....featuring local & organic items and a self-serve deli!
Open Daily --- M-Sa 8-8 . Su 11-5
Store (715) 848-9800 . Blaine 675-6588 . Kevin 432-6952
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