Mexican-Style Bakery Stocks Fruits and Vegetables

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Many neighborhoods in Topeka, Kansas don’t have a grocery store near by, forcing residents to travel far to get healthy food items like fruits and vegetables. When a large grocery store closed in one Topeka neighborhood, the community was left without a place to buy fresh food.

Mike Ramirez owns Panaderia Monterrey, a Mexican-style bakery in the neighborhood with the closed grocery store. He decided to begin stocking more fresh food items so that neighbors who lived by the bakery could grab what they needed without going far away.

“We were a bakery, but when (the grocery store) closed, now we go with a full line of the eggs and the dairy products, a little bit of the fruits and vegetables,” he said.

When store owners are flexible and begin examining the needs of their community, they can make a big impact on the health of a neighborhood.

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