Tag Archives: buy local

$2 off any pizza at the Corner Brewery in August

By Mark | August 1, 2011

OK, it’s the first of the month, and that means yet another coupon for an outstanding, locally owned business. This month’s coupon is from our friends at Ypsilanti’s Corner Brewery. Here are the details… A printable copy of this month’s coupon can be found here… Please feel free to share it liberally. Oh, and I […]

Posted in Coupon, Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Corner brewery, Coupon, Dave Steinhauser, Germanator Pizza, Hop Lovers Pizza, local economy, pizza | 14 Comments

The future of Cross Street

By Mark | January 27, 2011

AnnArbor.com has a story today about O’Neal Construction buying up the block of Cross Street that used to house Ted’s Campus Drugs and our local art supply store, Art Attack. Judging from the comments following the article, I’d say that people are happy to see the project in the hands of O’Neal, which was the […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 7-Eleven, Andrew O’Neal, Art Attack, business ideas, Cafe Ollie, Cross Street Station, Eastern Michigan University, economic development, food service in Ypsilanti, franchises, Kerrytown, local economy, microfiche cafe, O'Neal Construction, Patrick Elkins, press pass, Quizno's, retail in Ypsilanti, Starbucks, Ted Tangalakis, Ted's Campus Drugs, the future of Ypsilanti, typewriters, Ugly Mug, Ypsilanti water tower | 26 Comments

The return of Hugh for the holidays

By Mark | December 16, 2010

Last year at about this time, I ran an interview with a friend of mine named Joe Posch about a pop-up (temporary) shop that he was opening in Detroit. Well, the business, called Hugh, is back again this Christmas season, and I tracked down Joe to find out what was new, and what, if anything, […]

Posted in Detroit, Retail | Also tagged bachelor style, barware, Bureau of Urban Living, Christmas gifts, City Bird, Danish stainless steel, drinking, entertaining, entrepreneurism, Esquire, gift ideas, Halloween USA, hoarding, Hugh, indy retail, Iodent Building, Joe Posch, Laura Abraham, Leopold's Books, new ideas in retail, Playboy, pop-up retail, Rachel's Place, retail in Detroit, reuse, Scandinavian chic. bachelor pad, Shop Local for the Holidays, ski holiday, Spectacles, teak, the still-ejaculating husk that was once Hugh Hefner, transient retail, vintage | 4 Comments

Localwashing: the corporate co-opting of local

By Mark | August 5, 2009

I’m working on a post about Tea Baggers Gone Wild at the moment. While I’m doing that, I thought that I’d just cut and paste something from Metafilter for you to think about. What I’ve selected is brilliant little piece by a person named Miko, on the emerging corporate strategy of “localwashing.” You can read […]

Posted in Agriculture, Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Marketing, Other | Also tagged Arbor Brewing Company, Budweiser, corporate co-opting, corporate crap, Frito-Lay, greenwashing, Hellman's Mayonnaise, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, localwashing, MetaFilter, Miko, potato chips, Stacy Mitchell, things gone wild, Ypsilanti Beer War | 2 Comments

Layoffs and Buying Local

By Mark | March 6, 2009

They refer to January 26, 2009 as Black Monday. On that one day alone, 65,400 layoffs were announced. And that wasn’t the end of it. According to government data released today, another 651,000 jobs were lost in February, bringing our unemployment rate to 8.1% – the highest it’s been in the past 25 years. For […]