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By Clarke Condé

For those of us that have friends and family in town for the holidays, one of the most difficult things to explain to outsiders about this place may be Rochester’s grocery store obsession. In this holiday edition of Wear to Where, we stop in at the grocery store and pick up a few things…

From the remodeling of the East Avenue Wegmans, to the buzz surrounding the opening of Hart’s Grocers downtown, to last week’s announcement of COMIDA tax breaks for a new store in College Town, the role of the grocery store as neighborhood economic driver has now been firmly established in our tax policy.

While there is always room to debate tax priorities, one only has to look to Mise En Place which opened in the South Wedge in 2008 to see how a local store that caters to the needs of a neighborhood can act as an anchor for economic development. That said, how then do we explain the fuss we make over something that people from other places take for granted? Could it be that while we as a community remain divided over so many things in our city we have found at least common ground on something?

Model: Caitlin Zielinski
Make-up Artist: Tierney DeCaire
Shirt: Transit Apparel
Hat & Bag: Fahsye

If you are a local boutique, maker or model that is interested in participating in the Wear to Where series, please contact Clarke Condé at clarke{at}condephotography.com

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