YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS!!! KANSAS CITY TOP 5 TAKEAWAYS FROM THE CITY MARKET WEEKEND PRODUCE SHORTAGE CRISIS!!!
Our blog community uncovered an important Kansas City controversy this weekend and we're hearing increased discussion of our FIRST AND BREAKING NEWS regarding a produce shortage at the City Market.
To wit . . .
THE PRODUCE SHORTAGE CRISIS AT THE CITY MARKET SIGNALS CHANGING TIMES FOR ONE OF KANSAS CITY'S MOST BELOVED AND LONGSTANDING INSTITUTIONS!!!
Accordingly, after our FIRST REPORT, here's more insight from our blog community on the implications of this tragic development . . .
Luxury Condo Life Is Pushing Out Low-Rent Farmers And Their Tiny Margins For Produce Sales
This controversy signals a bigger debate about gentrification and how Kansas City neighborhoods are changing and evolving amid the influx of new money. Ironically, buyers wanting the City Market good life are driving up rents in the area and costs trickled down seem to be pushing out the lower income local farmers.
Like it or not, luxury shopping district rents can't be paid by Amish people selling strawberry jam and tomatoes.
This free market fact of life isn't pleasant or easily addressed but it's part of the reason that the City Market is having trouble keeping their aisles filled.
Streetcar Line Parking Peril Threatens To Drive City Market Produce Shoppers Someplace Else
Parking rules for the streetcar are oppressive and have the potential to create financial calamity for anybody who does something so simple as parking their car at an odd angle. The price of a mistake is simply too high for City Market shoppers and in the long term the streetcar could kill even more business.
It's Easier To Buy From Farmer's Markets In The Suburbs
A really insightful take from some of our suburban readers . . . Getting fresh produce is now easier in JoCo and on the outskirts of the Northland. The Overland Park Farmer's Market is pretty sweet and there now are more alternatives for local shoppers than the journey downtown.
KCMO Supply Chain Concerns Explained
Some of the more simple TKC readers just wanted to blame this Kansas City produce crisis on Winter but the reality is that the City Market has ALWAYS been a place to shop for fresh produce every week of the year bringing in supplies from far and wide . . . Still, it's worth answering this concern from those BRILLIANT MEMBERS OF THE TKC BLOG COMMUNITY who know that food isn't grown in the back of the grocery store.
City Market Management Ignores Traditional Produce Shoppers In Search Of Upscale Clientele
And here's the reality . . . The City Market seems to looking toward higher rents, trendy restaurants and boutiques in search of upscale shoppers while losing their focus on the merchants and shoppers who have supported the place through the course of Kansas City history.
There's a lot to think about here and as we hope TKC readers consider all of this over a healthy breakfast . . . Here are old school white people singing the new anthem of troubled Kansas City producer vendors . . .
Developing . . .
When Leawood builds a private farmer's market.
ReplyDeleteKansas City is finished.
The other day I saw the Star had the term "old school" in one of their headlines. Congratulations TKC. Your worsening the language of the newspaper. I guess it's good that nobody else notices.
ReplyDeleteCareful, somebody is going to call that video racist. They do seem to be ripping off The Platters.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Platters
7:55, before you complain about other peoples' use of language, make sure your own usage is correct. It's "you're," not "your."
ReplyDeleteGrammar Bitch
DeletePardon the pun, but the City Market is a shell of its former self.
ReplyDeleteYet, inexplicably, downtown remains the densest and fastest growing portion of the metro...
ReplyDeleteIn fact, the 5 square miles of downtown will surpass the population of the entire 15 square miles of Leawood by the next census, so, by all mean, build a fruit stand at 135th and Mission. We'll be laughing at your poorly parked JoCo-plated cars down here every weekend, just like we do now. See you at First Friday and on your date night and when you come into the city to visit your children or your retired parents. Enjoy your 45 minute drive home.
Farmers Market bitch off Tony?
ReplyDeleteThis is it.
Meaningless comes to mind. Keep pimping for hits.
Need more details, which vendors in the City Market were short on produce? List names
ReplyDeleteso instead of realizing nobody local is growing produce on FUCKING MARCH FIFTH, you gather all your "I hate Kansas City" talking points around the fire for a big ol' kumbaya?
ReplyDeleteNice work.
Hey Bob go fuck yourself
ReplyDeleteThanks Jesus for this food... De nada hombre. Lol
ReplyDelete8:49: Ever heard of "Four Season Gardening," by Eliot Coleman? Didn't think so. Ever heard of greenhouses? Of course not.
ReplyDeleteAnd Coleman lives in New England.
When a market has no fruit vendors its tells the whole story,mamgement is clearly bad and getting worse when all surburban markets have fruit vendors and they don't. What good is the trolley when you destroy a market that goes back to the 1800 hundreds. It's the management .several City Council people sit on that over site committee they need to fire the current management before the people stop coming for lack of product.
ReplyDeleteWith the parking problems I'm avoiding downtown KC. Hopefully they will have enough people living down there to support the businesses. There are a lot of more places that are consumer friendly than downtown KC.
ReplyDelete@8:15am
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Caleb. We're all sorry that the kale smoothie gig in Brooklyn didn't work out as planned.
While density, transit, disruption, TED Talks, artisinal coffee, and all the rest may be some people's priorities, others, perhaps like the good folks in Leawood, are more interested in safe neighborhoods, excellent education for their children, and other quality of life issues.
And you're increasingly unlikely to see many of them as downtown KC becomes even more inconvenient, poorly managed, and "dense" than you did before.
With a metro population of only 2.4 million, you'd think businesses in particular parts of the area would have to depend on repeat customers to survive, but KCMO continues to be mesmerized by big "projects, tourists, conventions, and endless empty hype.
All aboard!
Damn Tony all this drama over the damn city market. People will shot where they shop and as long as nanners are selling at 29 cents a pound on sale at the grocery store who cares. 80 percent of that shit they sell at the city market comes from the same vendors except it is distressed. Besides, what is the worry. Pretty soon the new train will be shipping in fruits by the car load and that will solve ALL the problems downtown..
ReplyDeleteEverything is better in the suburbs, notably the women and the schools.
ReplyDeleteReady to say "I was wrong" regarding the correlation between the March 15 sowing start date and no food/ produce in the the market. I went to Planters to get some supplies and it was a total fuck up. The market is being squeezed to death. Adiós to a once thriving and culturally diverse farmers market. Say hello to no parking. I am now at 133rd and Holmes area getting stuff for my dormant gardens. No more downtown chaos for me.
ReplyDeleteSuper Dave, more or less said the same thing yesterday Tuleride.
ReplyDeletePlenty of fruits walking around KC: http://youtu.be/nNTZ5tqas1k
ReplyDeleteIt's the nignogs and their WIC cards that keep me away from City Market.
ReplyDeleteTalk about turning a non issur into a molehill. The only explanation is that Tony dreams up all this nonsense while he's taking his morning shit. Then when his bowels finally empty out and his literary genius is exhausted he turns it over to Craig for his output.
ReplyDeleteThe real problem with the city market is that horse shit they serve at Winsloews they like to call BBQ.
ReplyDeleteIt's the immigrants fault.
ReplyDeleteHey, my ear piece ain't working.
I thought everybody knew the wholesalers for the City Market "farmers market" are just selling you Cosentino's seconds.
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