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Neighborhood Grocery won't compete with the big-box stores, but it doesn't have to.

Neighborhood Grocery won't compete with the big-box stores, but it doesn't have to.

  The past year has crushed independent restaurants across the country and brought a reality to their doors: Many were unprepared for a digital world. Unlike other small retailers, restaurateurs could keep the tech low, with basic websites and maybe Instagram accounts with tantalizing, well-lit photos of their food. For the past decade, Krystle Mobayeni had been trying to convince them that they needed more. Mobayeni, a first-generation Iranian-American, started her company, BentoBox, in 2013 as a side job. She wanted to use her graphic design skills to help restaurants build more robust web...

Image credit: Annamarie Sysling/WDET Food insecurity is a big unspoken part of the story for producers, says Dazmonique Carr. “You’re providing this great service but you’re providing it so much and you want to change the system so much, you don’t realize that you’re a part of that system.” Rooted is WDET’s newest offering of stories about land tending, community healing and regeneration happening right here on the ancestral land of the Indigenous Anishinaabe, the area commonly referred to as Detroit.   “Every single thing about gardening, farming, food growing re...