The Double Up Food Bucks program offers a dollar-for-dollar match on purchases of fresh produce for SNAP recipients. It just launched at the Syracuse Cooperative Market and Brady Market. There's a 20-dollar-a-day limit, but advocates say it can lead to more fruits and vegetables, and better health.
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A full service grocery store now joins the growing list of places to eat or buy food downtown. The Syracuse Cooperative Market cut the ribbon to mark its official opening in the Salt City Market building on the southern end of downtown. Coop Manager Jeremy DeChario thinks the market will serve a particular niche, even among the many eateries and places to drink downtown.
“Up to this point it wasn’t a true walkable community because there wasn t a grocery store that had fresh foods,” DeChario said. “What we are really looking to do is really be a nexus for community the same way that the store on Kensington has been a nexus for community in the Westcott neighborhood for all these years.”
Syracuse Cooperative Market brings affordable produce to Salt City Market
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The Fugees’ “Killing Me Softly With His Song” played over the hum of refrigerators in Syracuse Cooperative Market’s new location at Salt City Market. Shelves were stocked with organic and non-organic produce, with labels boasting sales Fuji apples for $1.99 a pound and four cucumbers for $3 scattered across food and home products.
The market carries local products such as Ithaca Milk yogurt and Byrne Dairy, along with familiar brands like Annie’s, Kettle Brand potato chips and Talenti gelato. Marketing manager Jen Eldridge said the co-op is planning to add a prepared food section with items like sandwiches in the future.
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Food aisle at the Syracuse Cooperative Market, the new full-service grocery opening April 14 at the Salt City Market, 484 S. Salina St. in downtown Syracuse. Don Cazentre
NEW MARKET OPENS TODAY DOWNTOWN: There are two things Jeremy DeChario, general manager of the Syracuse Cooperative Market, wants to make clear about the store. First, it is a full-service grocery store. Second, though it’s a co-op, you don’t have to be a member to shop there. The new grocery store opens today inside the Salt City Market at 484 S. Salina St.; it will be open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week. It fills the longtime demand for a full-service grocer downtown, which has grown more urgent in recent years as the number of people living downtown has risen dramatically. (Don Cazentre photo)
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First, it is a full-service grocery store.
“You can get your dairy, your produce, your meat, eggs and bread,” said DeChario, the Co-op’s general manager. “You can get your cleaning supplies, toothpaste, napkins your toilet paper. You don’t have to drive anywhere for those things. They’re here.”
The second thing: Despite its connection to the 45-year-old member-owned cooperative store that has served the Westcott Nation for 40-plus years, you don’t need to be a member to shop there. (You don’t have to be a member to shop at the Westcott area store, either).