The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Thursday, August 13, 2015. (Interview With Folks From Pogue’s Run Grocery Starts At 1:41 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). Could a grocery store coop be a a solution to the crisis of food deserts and lack of grocery stores with fresh produce and meats in inner city African-American neighborhoods? […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Monday, August 3, 2015. (Interview with Rep. Andre Carson Starts At 2:27 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). It’s the sixth straight year that Congressman Andre Carson has sponsored a job fair to help residents of his district find employment or upgrade their current employment. The Job Fair is this […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST For Monday, July 27, 2015. A series of meetings and conference calls over the weekend led to various segments of Indianapolis’ African-American leadership to come together to provide some short term immediate solutions to the crisis caused by the sudden closing last week of the city’s four Double 8 Grocery […]
#WTLCIndyNews: Indy-Area Grocery Chain ‘Double 8 Foods’ Closes Creating ‘Food Deserts’ In Inner-City
Source: Kim Wells -kimwellsmedia Indianapolis-based grocery store chain Double 8 Foods, formerly known as Seven Eleven Supermarket, did not open for business on Thursday morning at 7 o’clock as they have done each morning for more than the last five decades. Instead, in a move that will likely increase food deserts in inner-city Indianapolis, the stores […]
The Afternoons with Amos PODCAST for Thursday, July 23, 2015. (Story & Community Reaction Begins At 20:30 Mark On PODCAST Media Player). They were staples in the Indianapolis community for fifty-eight years. Founded by a refugee from the Hungarian Revolution, Zoltan Weisz named his business 7 to 11 Stores and in 1957 began doing business […]
In a move that will likely increase food deserts in inner-city Indianapolis, local grocery store chain Double 8 Foods, formerly known as Seven Eleven Supermarket, abruptly went out of business Thursday morning. The family-owned and operated business had been operating on Indianapolis’ north side for the past 58 years serving and catering to mostly shoppers […]
It has been almost 30 years since a grocer entered the marketplace in Indianapolis’ downtown landscape. This ends on Thursday when Marsh opens its doors on a “Marsh the Marketplace.” Officials with Marsh grocery stores say it will meet the needs of urban customers who are part of a new surge of residential living downtown. […]
