The Energy is Growing!

What a week!  There has been more activity and energy focused on CreekSide Co-op than ever - At the store, in our conversations and on social media.  Not all of it positive, and some of it downright false, but healthy debate and committed action are driving up store sales, which is exactly what we need right now.  Keep spreading the word!  Keep talking about what you love about CreekSide and its impact on our community, now and in the future.

Our campaign to bring CreekSide to financial stability by the end of March is right on track, and with all of us continuing to work together we’re more convinced than ever that it’s going to be successful.  We just need to keep shopping and sharing to make it happen.  (We are still meeting many committed Creekside shoppers who don’t know about the Declaration of Interdependence, so be sure to ask people and forward them the link if they haven’t officially signed on.

There are big changes going on in the store this week.  Several of the grocery aisles have been rearranged to better meet our needs and buying preferences.  One big change already is an expanded cookies and crackers section.   The biggest change of all is that the shelves closest to the hot bar have been removed to make way for an exciting new store area.  More news as it’s revealed!

This positive movement has gotten us thinking about how far the store has come since it opened over two years ago.  The product mix has been adjusted pretty dramatically.  The produce area is so much more open, a pleasure to navigate and look at.  Adjustments in deli, rearrangements of cases, many new products in prepared foods and on the hot bar.  And as many of us know, major pricing improvements.

While these changes were implemented by CreekSide’s staff, they were driven by all of us!  All the suggestions - in the store, over email, at meetings, on Facebook and other social media, and even on random blog posts - are heard and considered.  Nothing changes overnight, and no one suggestion is necessarily the clear path to success but the store does continue to improve because it is our community store, sensitive to all of our needs, and perhaps most of all responding to what we buy.  

Which brings us back to the passion.  People talk about CreekSide because they care what happens here.  Let’s keep making sure we get to keep talking about it long into the future.