Freedom Mart opening @ Pine and Peoria

[breitee]

Check out the main web site. How embarrasing!

http://freedom-mart.net/index.htm

[RecycleMichael]

Good question. It is probably just a stunt to sidetrack the competition.

I really don't care who opens a grocery store there, as long as they do a good job and have a good selection of groceries. I would naturally cheer for the locals to do it before the guy from St. Louis, but getting it done and done right is more important to me.

Someone should go to the job fair today and ask questions. Why would you have a job fair when you have no jobs?

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by breitee

Check out the main web site. How embarrasing!

http://freedom-mart.net/index.htm

yeah but the blasian is rockin!

[breitee]

Nice teeth in the upper right corner, and don't worry, "Winky" has got your back. Who designed this thing?

[cannon_fodder]

No comment necessary on that really.

I'm too cheap to pay the $5 to perform a full entity search, but considering that "[t]he owners of Trinity Investments are mostly from the urban communities of north Tulsa" and that its  "focus is on motivating and uplifting urban communities and the inhabitants" I find it strange that their registered agent and address is in Broken Arrow.

https://www.sooneraccess.state.ok.us/corp_inquiry/corp_inquiry-find.asp

      TRINITY GROCERY INVESTMENTS, LLC     Domestic Limited Liability Company      Legal

   (RA) Registered Agent:    TRINITY GROCERY INVESTMENTS, LLC
4400 S 202ND E AVE
BROKEN ARROW, OK 74014

   (RA) Effective Date:    11/21/2007

Very well could, and probably does mean nothing.  But if your focus is North Tulsa and you are trying to pass yourself off as a North Tulsa business owned by North Tulsans... wouldn't you want a North Tulsa address?  What, none of the "most" owners in North Tulsa wanted their address attached to the project?

and yes, I think it is dirty to advertise and interview for jobs that do not exist.  Are they assuming people on the North Side have nothing better to do with their time?  Seriously, what gives?

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by breitee

Nice teeth in the upper right corner, and don't worry, "Winky" has got your back. Who designed this thing?

you know, it almost seems like sambo, blaxploitation type of web site.  Like a joke or something.

Now that someone has dug up the address of the site owner (in BA)...it really makes you wonder.

[breitee]

Seems VERY fishy. Why would you want to use stereotypes to advertise for non existant jobs for a piece of property that you do not even own?

[waterboy]

I didn't like the sterotypes either. North Tulsa is not Okie for "home of black people and a few other minorities". I hope it was just naivete or a sophomoric attempt by a well meaning family member of the founders. I do like their mission to serve areas underserved by other grocers but those areas are not necessarily racially homogeneous.

[TheArtist]

I worked for a builder who lives in BA and builds a lot of homes in north Tulsa. Did some work in one of their new houses over there by the grocery store.  They were a very nice, young, energetic, couple. Cudos to them for starting the home building business and making, what appeared to me, a success at it, and doing so by focusing on that area. Again, dont know if its them thats part of this grocery store thing, but it would perhaps make sense, especially since where they build so many of their homes are right next to where this now empty grocery store is.


Just checked the location of the address listed above. Its residential, so likely the home mailing address of one of the parties involved. I dont believe its the couple I knew for thats not where I remembered them living. Unless they have moved and it has been years since I have seen them. I dont think there is anything wrong with living in one area and still caring about and having an interest in another.

[RecycleMichael]

KRMG had this on their website...

(Tulsa, OK) -- Trinity Grocery Investments, LLC holds a job fair at the Rudisill Library Friday and Saturday. It's a positive sign for the neighborhood which has been without a grocery store since last summer. The Albertson's at Pine and Peoria closed in June. There's no word on when the new store might open. However, several hundred people filled out applications at the job fair in anticipation of the Trinity group opening a Freedom Mart in the area.

Is that a good sign that so many people want to work at a north Tulsa grocery or a bad sign that so many people are willing to take an $8 an hour job?

[TheArtist]

This is actually kind of curious to me as to how opening a large grocery store would actually work. It not simply a matter of, hiring people, opening the doors and turning on the lights. How do you get in contact with aaaall those hundreds of vendors who supply the store with goods, negotiate prices, placements of everything, prices in the store, cash registers, signage, etc.? Is there a "middle man" person or company that can do the coordination of getting the products on the shelf? Or will they have to call up the bread and pastry company, fresh meat and fruits, the soup company, milk and cheese producers, Proctor and Gamble, PepsiCo, sacks and grocery carts, etc. and get all that ordered and shipped to the store and negotiate prices themselves?  How would all that work? Won't all of that take a bit of time?  And they dont even have the store yet...

[TheArtist]

quote:Originally posted by recyclemichael

KRMG had this on their website...

(Tulsa, OK) -- Trinity Grocery Investments, LLC holds a job fair at the Rudisill Library Friday and Saturday. It's a positive sign for the neighborhood which has been without a grocery store since last summer. The Albertson's at Pine and Peoria closed in June. There's no word on when the new store might open. However, several hundred people filled out applications at the job fair in anticipation of the Trinity group opening a Freedom Mart in the area.

Is that a good sign that so many people want to work at a north Tulsa grocery or a bad sign that so many people are willing to take an $8 an hour job?

Hey, I am sure there are a lot of kids and young people up there, just like in any other part of town who need to start somewhere. Heck I had to walk miles to work the first several years and first few jobs I ever had.

[Rico]

quote:Originally posted by recyclemichael

KRMG had this on their website...

(Tulsa, OK) -- Trinity Grocery Investments, LLC holds a job fair at the Rudisill Library Friday and Saturday. It's a positive sign for the neighborhood which has been without a grocery store since last summer. The Albertson's at Pine and Peoria closed in June. There's no word on when the new store might open. However, several hundred people filled out applications at the job fair in anticipation of the Trinity group opening a Freedom Mart in the area.

Is that a good sign that so many people want to work at a north Tulsa grocery or a bad sign that so many people are willing to take an $8 an hour job?

Don't really know if this qualifies as an answer to your question.... However; When Sager opens his Deli/Grocery that he has said will be part of the 1st Street Lofts, I would work for free to help the project be successful...

Well.... I may need a Pastrami and a break to check out the happenings... But mostly for free.  

[sgrizzle]

Apparently KJRH forgot to check the REAL newssource (here) before running their story:
http://www.kjrh.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=59813037-69cd-4cf2-b93d-f8d2e11e16b4

[Double A]

Suddenly, the kool-aid glee club turns into a bunch of negative nancy naysayers. How peculiar?