University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 31. 1976
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Groceries ...
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and lacked modern equipment for the convenience of shoppers. Goble said.
"Many of the stores weren't self service," he said. "A woman would come in and ask for a can of tomatoes. You'd get it for her, and then you'd go right back to get a can of peas. There was no modern shelving and there were no aisles for carts."
The stores' owners had a lack of free time because of long hours and no employees, Goble said. Government red tape also discouraged owners, he said, because there were as many forms to complete for a small store as there were for a large supermarket.
Goble said he sometimes felt nostalgic for the smaller stores. He said he wished that supermarkets were one-third the size so a customer could find products easier. He also misses the friendliness of neighborhood stores, he said.
"A small store was a community visiting center," he said. "People would come in and tell you their intimate problems or get help, but I wouldn't. You couldn't do that in a big supermarket."
ALTHOUGH THE neighborhood stores have gone out of business, some local businesses provide alternatives to large chain supermarkets.
Bob Carl, owner of Kwik Shop, 1714 W. 23rd, said he tried to make his convenience store like a neighborhood grocery by getting customers and ordering items they requested.
Call said a population shift to the south and southwest areas of Lawrence necessitated new stores for new neighborhoods.
"Our store isn't like the big cold market," he said. "We try to be a small
"People are moving from the downtown areas to the suburbs, and lower-income people are moving into the downtown areas. They are moving down in the old neighborhood," he said.
Carl said convenience stores weren't trying to take business away from large supermarkets but were for people making small purchases.
"THEY'RE not for buying $30 to $40 worth of groceries for the week," he said. "One store that has characteristics of both a grocery store and a food store is the Javahn Food Mart, 846 Illinois."
Marshell Eakin, a clerk at the Food Mart,
said the store's success was due to its fruit-
based menu. The business generated by the Hole-in-the-Wall delicatessen and sandwich shop, located in Santa Monica, Calif.,
Jim Marshall, owner of the Hole-in-the-Wall, said the Jayhawk's success was due to its location far from large supermarkets. It is near the old, community-type store." he said.
Another business using a different concept in merchandising is the Community Merchandise store. The Merchandise is owned by member-customers and tries to serve a "socio-community" rather than a salesperson. It also tries to Chuck Magger, an organizer of the store.
"THE COMMUNITY we serve is basically an identity thing—students and low-income people," he said. "It's not just the people who live within five blocks."
Magerl said the Merchantile was more personal than most stores in Lawrence because it was breaking down distinctions between employee and customer. Each member of the Merchantile works in the store two hours each month.
Because most of the shopping procedure in the Merchantile is self-service, Magerl said he trusted shoppers "to have integrity."
Customers who purchase items are expected to weigh and price their own pur-
"It's not a real fast-service type of store," he said. "You just help yourself. It makes some people unyess because it's not a hurry in, hurry out operation."
THERE ARE PROBLEMS competing with corporate supermarkets, Magerl said, because most supermarkets own company farms and distribution facilities.
"But we're getting pretty sharp at it," he said. "And that's weird, because we're not afraid of that."
Co-op stores on the East and West coasts have expanded into large, supermarket-type operations, Mageri said, but the store has already started selling the Lawrence store small and personal.
"We want to keep away from the 'big is better' corporate motto," he said.
One example of the Merchantile's different business policies, Magerl said, was that income and expense statements are posted in the store.
and that you're not getting ripped-off," he said. "We're not doing this for the profit motive. The big stores care about profits first."
"YOU KNOW EXACTLY where we stand.
The Merchantile prefers to sell locally produced goods, Magerl said, and was considered a natural food store, rather than a health food store, Magerl said.
"We've started getting a lot of old people in," he said, "and they say that this is what happens."
Such stores were probably neighborhood grocery, and despite the existence of the Merchantile and a few alternatives available for Lawrence shoppers, most will buy their goods from supermarkets. The days of the corner grocery are gone and nearly forgotten by many.
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