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Parking
at the New Store
By Kenna S. Eaton, General Manager, from the November
2005 Newsletter
We are so pleased to have our very own parking
lot, yet again. It gives us a lot more flexibility to do what we
want (have parties, growers’ markets, whatever we dream up),
but it also comes with a heavy price tag. While the lot is pretty
good sized, it’s already obvious that parking is and will
continue to be a problem. I actually found out the other day that
when Safeway was here, over 40 years ago, they had a full-time
parking lot attendant to help direct traffic, assist customers
with their baskets and to ask others to park elsewhere.
We are
putting together a crew of volunteers to do this job for us until
such time as we deem it necessary to hire someone. In the meantime,
I’m asking everyone to be considerate and please limit your
parking in our lot to one hour and only while shopping at the Co-op.
This will allow everyone the same opportunity to park and shop
while getting groceries. In the meantime, if a monitor asks you
to relocate, I would also appreciate it if you could understand
the difficult job they have and kindly, and pleasantly, co-operate.
Unfortunately, I have already experienced that parking brings out
the animal in many folk! Of course, I understand the desire to
park and run into Goodwill or Howard Hughes for “just a few
moments,” and in the past I’ve even done it myself.
However, I also know that it’s never just a few minutes,
somehow it always magically takes way longer than I ever intended.
So please help us, and for your co-operation in this matter, I
wish you many open parking spots wherever you go and “Good
Carma” along the way!
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