TE.GROCERY22P1While reading yesterday’s Express on my way to work, I spotted an article that had real relevance to what CKP is doing.  The article was titled “Salvage Grocers Catch on”, and it chronicled the rise of grocery stores that specialize in selling food in damaged packaging and just past the sell by date.

 The focus of the article is around Palumbo’s Friday Store in Arvada, Colorado.  It states that a majority of people still go to the regular grocery store and that going to a salvage grocer is more like a “treasure hunt”. 

 Imagine the food waste that occurs every time a shipment is dropped?  These salvage grocers are doing a huge service to the community as well as to the environment.  In other instances, the food and packaging would end up in a landfill, as opposed to feeding people. 

 Does anyone know of any local salvage grocers?

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