2010 Rural Grocery Summit

June 14-15, 2010, Manhattan, KS

RGS 2010

Improving Access to Locally Grown Food in Rural Grocery Stores

Improving Access to Fresh Foods in Rural Areas: Policy Strategies and Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania. Presenters: Tracey Giang and Brianna Almaguer Sandoval, The Food Trust
Internet Brokerage System - a way to bring in more locally grown foods. Presenter: Pete Garfinkel, Kansas Rural Center
Local Foods-Simply Kansas. Presenter: Becki Rhoades, Kansas Department of Commerce

Getting Started: So You Want to Start a Grocery Store?

Conducting a Market Analysis. Presenter: David Mace, Small Business Development Center at Butler County Community College
Putting Together a Financial Plan. Presenter: Linda Sutton, North Central Kansas Small Business Development Center
Starting a Retail Food Store: A Regulatory Perspective. Presenter: Adam Inman, Kansas Department of Agriculture

Rural Grocer Best Practices: Meeting Minimum Buying Requirements

Regional Distributors. Presenter: Kelly Kays, Joe Smith Company
Store Distributors. Presenter: Val Branham, Gove Community Improvement Association, Gove KS

Preserving Culture and Building Community through our Grocery Stores

The Rural Kansas Grocery: Flour, Salt and Community Building. Presenter: Jane Marshall, Department of Hospitality Management and Dietetics
Filling the Larder, Feeding our Families: A Chapman Center for Rural Studies “History is Now” Project. Presenter: MJ Morgan, K-State History Department
Documenting Community Food Narratives in Kansas City, Kansas. Presenter: Spencer Wood, K-State Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work

Grocery Ownership / Management Models

The Cooperative Option for Rural Grocery Stores. Presenters: Stuart Reid and Kevin Edburg, Food Co-Op 500
Partnering with Other Institutional Buyers. Presenter: Mayor Rick Giefer, City of St. Paul
Creation of a Student-run Grocery Store in a Remote Community in Rural Nebraska. Presenters: Kathy Starkweather and Jon Bailey, Center for Rural Affairs

Rural Grocer Best Practices: Dealing with Labor issues - EmployeeRecruitment, Employee Retention, Customer Service

Rural Grocer Best Practices: Building Community Support

Community Support. Presenter: Doug Cunningham, Affiliated Foods
Morland Grocery Sustainability. Project: Assessing Local Needs and Strength. Presenter: Leah Tsoodle, K-State Research and Extension
Holding Community Meetings to Build Local Support. Presenter: David Procter, Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy

Finding Outside Funding Sources

Rural Grocer Best Practices: Ideas for increasing sales:

Increasing SNAP Enrollment and Use of VISION Cards.Presenter: Pete Garfinkel, Kansas Rural Center
Marketing Your Store. Presenter: Debra Nelson, Little River Grocery Store
Marketing Your Store. Presenter: Kerry Smith, Lincoln Grocery Store

Rural Grocery Dialogue