Forty Acres Fresh Market

Forty Acres Fresh Market is an independent, Black woman-owned grocery business offering high-quality, fresh food to people across Chicagoland. 🥦🥒🌽

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@CisekNicho79789 @BlockClubCHI A liquor license because it's a grocery store and grocery stores in IL typically carry liquor. Selling alcohol was always the plan. Nothing to do with taxes. Never said we needed it to succeed. Should sell it b/c it's standard practice and was always in the plan.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

Welcome to Chicago's next great grocery store... https://t.co/u5TIpl4wnb via @YouTube

#HappyBlackHistoryMonth

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@drdina1 @DarkSideAdvcate @EndWokeness Where did you grow up? Even being raised in a 90+% white town in the 1980s and 90s, I knew Lift Evry Voice. In fact, my almost all white 8th grade chorus sang it at our spring concert. Please speak for yourself when you say the majority of Black people didn't know about it.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@JohnLeFevre Where is your data coming from? Soda and "junk food" is not the #1 expenditure by SNAP recipients by a longshot. What are you defining as "junk food"? Itemized receipts of SNAP purchases aren't reported to any agencies or payment processor.

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

Commentary: The Forty Acres Fresh Market on Chicago Avenue in the Austin neighborhood, the only Black-owned grocery store in the city, succeeds at every level.
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[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@BillyD422 @B1TuckerCarlson No one is forcing diversity. It happens when you are intentional. Your original comment that our staff has to be 60% white when we operate in a nearly 80% Black 20% Hispanic neighborhood was a strawman you used to spout your opinions about diversity when no one asked.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@BillyD422 @B1TuckerCarlson No one is forcing anything. We hire from the applicant pool that applies. We cast a wide net that draws in all types of applicants. If we find that we are missing a demographic in our staff that is represented in our customer base we are intentional about find that representation

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@BillyD422 @B1TuckerCarlson Sigh. So you are insisting on being daft. White people already do the same. Go to Olivia's Market or Agora Market. Once again you are making assumptions about who works at Forty Acres Fresh Market without actually seeing who works here.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@BillyD422 @B1TuckerCarlson What exactly are your assumptions about the staff of a grocery store that you obviously have not been to?

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@BillyD422 @B1TuckerCarlson How about you come to the store and see for yourself. 5713 West Chicago Avenue. The staff reflects the neighborhood it serves and the diversity within it.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@BillyD422 @B1TuckerCarlson We support LOCAL neighborhood hiring, like any other small business would. Also, hiring depends on the applicant pool. Please do not be daft.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@IsIllinois @tjbrown Yes. We are open now. Open everyday 8AM-8PM. Sorry for the delay in replying. We do not use Twitter much anymore.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@Dennis577854647 @B1TuckerCarlson Opened in an 80% Black neighborhood. We're still waiting on all of this stealing that y'all keep predicting.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@JWentz241323 @B1TuckerCarlson 3.5 months and still going and growing. Thanks!

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@Connie47195278 @B1TuckerCarlson December 28 and nope.

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@willforamerica1 @B1TuckerCarlson 3 months in and nowhere near that.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@LittleGaleSq @B1TuckerCarlson Liquor store is over a mile away. And since this is a grocery store in the state of IL, liquor can be sold in it.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@lapr19763 @B1TuckerCarlson Opened that weekend and still open. Still waiting on all that crime you're predicting.

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@CryptoMoney2035 @B1TuckerCarlson So imagine Pete's Fresh Market, Mariano's, Tony's, Kroger, Publix...shall we go on?

[Forty Acres Fresh Market @40AcresFresh]

@GordonRedshaw1 @B1TuckerCarlson Sold through multiple bins while they were in season.