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A grocery store is like a carnival midway—it offers shelves and shelves of goodies that only become available after lobbing baseballs at stacks of bottles. Today's Groupon brings the fresh food without the carnie cons: for $7, you get $15 worth of locally grown produce, groceries, and more at Main Market Co-op, located in downtown Spokane. This Groupon is not valid for the purchase of alcohol.
Main Market Co-op brings together a variety of locally sourced food, offering grocery shoppers a place to purchase fresh, hormone-free goods from an eco-conscious collective. Stock your shelves with any number of groceries, including rich Craven's Coffee, Small Planet Organic Tofu, or fruity Hot Lips Soda. Produce pickers can browse through the chemical-free fruits and vegetables, reveling in ripe apples, peaches, apricots, and potatoes. Pick up organically produced dairy from Amaltheia Dairy and fair-trade candy from Theo Chocolate, or treat your Mensa-level astrophysicist canine to an all-natural product from Castor & Pollux Pet Works. With dozens of regional suppliers at your disposal, you can have enough locally produced ingredients to make breakfast, lunch, dinner, brunch, and brinner. Main Market also features a deli with made-to-order sandwiches ($7.49 with kettle chips), a fresh heaping of salads ($4.99–$6.99), and piping-hot cups ($3.95) or bowls ($4.95) of soup.
Main Market Co-op is committed to reducing its carbon footprint, giving equal respect to producers and consumers, and providing information about healthy foods. Feel free to take a behind-the-scenes tour, held every other Thursday afternoon, to see the Co-op's heat recirculation techniques, rooftop garden, and trash-talking shrubbery.
Reviews
The Pacific Northwest Inlander named Main Market Co-op the best new business opened in 2009–2010. Down To Earth also featured Main Market Co-op. Five Yelpers gave the co-op an average of four stars, and it boasts more than 550 Facebook fans.
- With the on-site deli, fresh food is available for takeout. There are even meat lockers available for a nominal monthly rent so those who want to purchase meat in bulk can have a place to store it. – Cheryl-Anne Millsap, Down To Earth
- Relatively reasonable prices for organic and natural produce, canned, boxed, and bulk items. They also have a great selection, especially for Spokane. They have my favorite sheep's milk Gouda for half what I payed [sic] for it elsewhere. – Michael B., Yelp
Groupon Says
Freshness Fanaticism
If you're an even-tempered sort not prone to flights of zealotry, you might still become somewhat determined to find the freshest produce at the most frugal prices. However, if your search for freshness impedes on your daily life, you may suffer from actual freshness fanaticism. Consult Main Market Co-op if you begin to exhibit any of these telltale symptoms:
- Refuse to wait until tree produces apples to begin eating one.
- Will only buy milk from the far back of cooler time-stamped EXP 2018.
- Passive-aggressively encourage blind dates to become "fresh" with you, leading to mixed messages, long silences in parked cars, and more Mylar apology balloons than you can realistically show off to coworkers.
- Refuse to check out Shanghai Knights until it comes out on Blu-ray.
- Unable to determine which came first, and is therefore fresher, the chicken or the egg, you simply opt to try and eat the sleeves of your straitjacket.
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