Already frustrated by the national health-care debate and its connection to the food-delivery system -- so much so I wrote about it on PoliticsDaily.com -- the last thing I wanted to notice in my North Oak Cliff neighborhood grocery store were fleas flying over tomatoes in the produce bin and a bug crawling on the conveyor belt in the check-out line.
After days of hearing about shouting matches at town hall meetings anchored in misplaced fear about government-run health care and in selfishness that if a broken system works for a few, that's OK -- I'm convinced that meaningful health care reform must start from the community up.
Lobbyists are pouring into Washington, D.C. while the debate rages throughout the country. Will enlightened observers address the connection between quality food delivery and preventative health care? Do national grocers like the one in my neighborhood wonder why the look of their store varies from one section of Dallas to another? If the national chain I visited offers one kind of food delivery in Plano (where I used to live) and another one in North Oak Cliff, don't they have a problem with that? If they have more organic offerings in Plano than in North Oak Cliff, are grocery chains searching for ways to remedy this?
While I wait for that, I'll keep getting adjusted to my new neighborhood and hoping that today was just an aberration in customer service (it wasn't that way on an earlier visit). But I still intend to send a note to the grocery manager. Excellent service should not be limited to a few.
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Posted by: hector velasquez | September 15, 2009 at 09:35 PM