In North Raleigh, 4 friends are embarking on a try to assistance you save on groceries.
Common Cents 1/2 Price Groceries gets the products by shopping "shelf pulls," or products grocery stores sell at the back of to distributors when there are wrapping changes or overstocks. The distributors afterwards sell the equipment low to unpack them.
The friends, who are all members of the circuitously Evergreen Church, motionless to open the store when perplexing to find ways to give some-more to the village this year. The church had a space accessible for lease, and the friends thought the store was some-more unsentimental than opening an additional sort of business.
In further to on condition that cheaper food to the community, the 4 wish to in the future be means to give 10 percent of any distinction to their church.
Items at Common Cents in all run 50 percent to 80 percent off the unchanging sell price. For instance, store physical education instructor Linnette Stone, one of the 4 investors, says she has equipment such as Lawrys marinades for 75 cents each, dual for $1.25 and code name cereal for $1.
The store sells dry goods, paper products, baby equipment and house pet items; no perishables.
Shoppers will find Common Cents a small different. Packaging on products is not regularly perfect, and Stone says a little equipment are past their sell-by dates. She points out, however, that the dates hammered on food products are referred to dates by that consumers should squeeze the object to experience it at the most appropriate flavor. (The USDA Web site concurs.)
And there are copiousness of equipment that are still well inside of their sell-by dates as well.
Common Cents accepts cash, withdraw and credit payments, and Stone pronounced she is operative on removing accede to accept electronic food stamps, too.
The store is at 6904 Glenwood Ave., subsequent to Evergreen Church, at the back of the McDonalds and Wachovia.
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