Monthly Archives: October, 2008

One month: so far, so good

By Posted in - Uncategorized on October 25th, 2008 6 Comments

Yesterday marks the end of our first month of operation. It’s been a busy and difficult month for us, but also exciting, educational, and even — most of the time — fun.

There have been …

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What ever happened to transparency?

By Posted in - Uncategorized on October 21st, 2008 5 Comments

A few people have asked me why we stopped putting the wholesale price (i.e. what we payed) on the same price signs that have the retail price (i.e. what you pay). Some have suspicions …

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Great stuff this week

By Posted in - Uncategorized on October 18th, 2008 1 Comments

Just a quick look at some of the things we have in this week:

papaya
organic dates
organic arugula
green plantains (by popular demand)
sweet asian pears from California that taste like honey in your mouth.

Plus we have a special: …

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Pumpkins

By Posted in - Uncategorized on October 15th, 2008 1 Comments

Not having learned our lesson from the “let’s buy an entire pallet of strawberries” adventure (I’ll leave it up to someone else to write a post about that), yesterday I had a friendly forklift driver …

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Steven’s back

By Posted in - Uncategorized on October 11th, 2008 2 Comments

So, you might remember that Steven Lucy, the second partner of Open Produce, took off shortly after our opening to go on a homemade raft trip down the Mississippi. Well, he’s back! As …

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We’re still open!

By Posted in - Uncategorized on October 2nd, 2008 5 Comments

Yup, that’s right, it’s been a week and we’re still here. We’ve got soy milk, soy yogurt soy ice cream, noodles from several cultures (you can now save yourself a trip to Chinatown for …

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