[Vision2020] Council Far From Anti-Growth
Tom Hansen
thansen at moscow.com
Wed Mar 15 16:23:03 PST 2006
Sunil -
Beer is a staple.
Chris: How about the cost of frivolous items like oranges, tomatoes,
apples. You know? Fruits and veggies.
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"
-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Sunil Ramalingam
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:18 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Council Far From Anti-Growth
Chris,
How much is beer up there? If I remember, it's about $2 more a six pack
than in the Lower 48.
Sunil
>From: Chris Storhok <cstorhok at co.fairbanks.ak.us>
>To: "'keely emerinemix'" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>, deco at moscow.com,
>vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Council Far From Anti-Growth
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:37:38 -0900
>
>I find this discussion interesting as it cuts to the heart of my
>profession.
>Keeping the dollar in circulation within a community is one of the toughest
>yet most critical aspects of economic development.
>For example, when my family and I lived in Latah County we purchased almost
>all of our food items from Moscow with the exception of runs to Potlatch
>for
>items that we ran out of and needed immediately (baking soda, sugar,
>charcoal, etc.) The Potlatch grocery store was just too expensive to make
>monthly supply runs too (besides both my wife and I worked in Moscow and
>would just pick our supplies up there). We shopped at the nursery in
>Potlatch and the drug store in Potlatch, almost everything else was
>purchased in Moscow.
> However, when J.C. Penny's closed in the Palouse Mall we had to make
>runs to either Spokane or Coeur d' Alene for clothes for my wife and
>daughters since none of them wore Size 1 in the latest fashions that were
>cool for college kids and we sure the heck were not going to pay Bon (now
>Macy's) prices for clothes that wore out anyway. We never really shopped
>in Lewiston or Clarkston since it was just as easy to travel to Coeur d'
>Alene or Spokane.
> Moscow shopping was enjoyable and easy; most stores were well
>stocked with their specialty items, and prices were competitive. I loved
>the customer service we received from almost every store in town, and I
>have
>only fond memories now of that type of service....I even loved working with
>Moscow car dealers and auto repair shops.
>
> No one has heard of customer service in Fairbanks, shopping here is
>just plain hell, everything is at least 30% higher than Moscow, finding a
>sales clerk is impossible and forget competent workers as they all are
>working within the tourist industry and getting paid better than at
>Safeway,
>Wal-Mart, etc.) My wife and I shop at the Safeway in North Pole (paying
>even more than Fairbanks) because customer service actually exists and
>their
>meats/seafood guy stocks the store with cuts and seafood of such high
>quality that I am more than willing to pay the higher prices. I love our
>Friday seafood shipments, we get both king ($5/lb) and dungeonous crab
>($3.5/lb) that is fresh and never frozen - I have never tasted crab this
>good. (Alright, there is one nice advantage about living up here...the
>seafood)
>
>Chris Storhok
>
>
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