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🗓️ 31 July 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | When we're the... |
0:03.0 | Where's that... |
0:05.0 | Where's that story? |
0:06.0 | It's Curious City. |
0:08.0 | Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people. |
0:14.0 | Hi, I'm WBEZ reporter Monica Eng, and I'm taking on a question about good deals at the local produce market. |
0:21.6 | The question comes from Chicago and Kalin Hall. She loves fruits and vegetables. |
0:26.5 | And I would prefer to buy organic produce, but usually can't have I afford it. |
0:31.7 | So she turns to Chicago's local produce markets where high-quality fruit and veg, |
0:36.6 | even organic, can go for amazing |
0:38.7 | prices. Markets like Cermack produce, fresh farms, peats, Tonys, and her favorite, Stanley's at |
0:46.0 | North and Elston. There are many, many rows of fruits and vegetables and a big organic selection |
0:53.3 | that's much, much, much cheaper than any other |
0:56.3 | grocery store I've ever been to. |
0:58.3 | But to Kaylin, the selection looks suspiciously like stuff she sees at Whole Foods and Trader |
1:03.4 | Joe's down the street. |
1:05.2 | Just a little older and a lot cheaper. |
1:08.8 | Then one day, she was at Tony's finer foods and the sketchiness went off the charts. |
1:14.5 | I saw a stock of Brussels sprouts that had the same label as Brussels sprouts from a Trader Joe. |
1:24.7 | So Kalyn asked if these smaller stores were selling rejected produce from Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. |
1:30.4 | And is there something wrong with that? |
1:32.7 | As a longtime Stanley's customer, I was curious too. |
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