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I get it, convenience, access, cost and time are the most<br \/>\nimportant factor for most but your shopping dollar is a vote in the food system you want.<br \/>\nMost local, regional or small manufacturers are too small and don\u2019t have enough volume to sell directly<br \/>\nto conventional supermarkets so the chains buy from Specialty Food Distributors who cover the country<br \/>\nwith dozens of distribution centers. Being in the CPG (consumer packaged goods) world most my life, I<br \/>\nunderstand how this system evolved so you could get breadth and depth of choices; Asian, Thai, Tea,<br \/>\nCoffee and salsa all sit beside National brands like Tide, Crest and Prego that have slots in Golub or<br \/>\nHannaford\u2019s warehouses. The smaller brands like Casa Visco, Colavita, and Bigelow all use a National<br \/>\nnetwork of Specialty Food Distributors to become a local, regional or national brand.<br \/>\nThere has been much consolidation in our industry. Right now there are really only two main<br \/>\ndistributors that cover the country, UNFI & KeHe. In the case of my 3rd generation family business, we<br \/>\nmanufacture in Schenectady and the closest Distribution Center is Leigh Valley PA. Sauce that is made in<br \/>\nSchenectady gets picked up and send to PA and then comes back to supply local chains<br \/>\nI started 518Food, LLC to be a hyper local resource for locally made food products that are too small to<br \/>\nsurvive in a UNFI or KeHe. Getting product distributed to grocery stores in the 518 should be easier. We<br \/>\nhave complicated our food system by relaying on ever increasing corporations that are just too big. This<br \/>\nwas made clear during Covid, it was the local CoOp, the local independent, the IGA that picked up the<br \/>\nphone and increased their orders for sauce. It took almost 8 months for KeHe & UNFI to react to the<br \/>\nempty shelves.<br \/>\nAccess to healthy local food should not be determined by your zip code, but in 2022 I think we can all<br \/>\nsay we have a better understanding of inequities baked into the system. But why not let the<br \/>\nstakeholders have a say in how the resources gets distributed? Who has access, what are the best<br \/>\npractices now and where can we fill in the gaps?<br \/>\nSupporting local brands and locally grown food ensures more diversity. If people only shop for national<br \/>\nbrands at conventional retailers like Target or Walmart Prego and Ragu will be the only brands available<br \/>\nto you. By the time you realize there are only options, Casa Visco will be a fond memory of how food<br \/>\nused to be. Neighborhood stores and particularly CoOps are part of the community, they support local<br \/>\nbrands and growers and they put the planet before profits. 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