In The News
Grand Opening Media Coverage (click article title for link)
- Winsight Grocery Business, June 7, 2019, "Social Entrepreneur Builds 'A Market for the People'"
- Oakland Post, June 5th, 2019, "From Food Desert to Oasis"
- San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 2019, "Community Foods Market, West Oakland's first full-scale grocery store in decades, is open"
- Fox 2 KTVU, June 1, 2019, "West Oakland community grocery store opens, first in neighborhood in more than 40 years"
- East Bay Express, June 1, 2019, "Community Foods Market Grand Opening & Neighborhood Festival"
- NBC Bay Area, June 1, 2019, "Community Grocery Opens in West Oakland's Former Food Desert"
- Oakland Economy Now, Vol 54 June 2019, "West Oakland Gets New Full-Service Grocery, Neighborhood Festival"
- ABC 7 News, May 31, 2019, "First full-service grocery store in 40 years set to open in west Oakland"
- Next City, May 30, 2019, "How West Oakland Financed Its Own Grocery Store"
- Independent Grocers Alliance, May 29, 2019, "A Market for the People"
- East Bay Times, May 29, 2019, "West Oakland neighborhoods welcome first full-service grocery store in decades"
- Berkeleyside, May 24, 2019, "Community Foods Market in West Oakland responds to the neighbors it will serve"
- East Bay Express, May 7, 2019, "Community Foods Market Targets Mid-May Opening in West Oakland"
- San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2019, "Community in need getting a food oasis as market comes to West Oakland"
- KQED, April 13, 2019 "Full-Service Grocery Store Set to Open in West Oakland Food Desert"
San Francisco Chronicle - Click below to read more.
KQED News - Click below to read more.
