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Boston Public Market goes to seven-day operation in July
By adamg on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 11:12am
The Boston Public Market, whose vendors sell products grown or made in Massachusetts, will be open every day of the week starting July 18.
The market is currently closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Market CEO Cheryl Cronin said the market has always intended to go to seven-day operation, but moved up the beginning because of its successful first year - its $8 million in total sales to date exceeded initial forecasts.
The new hours will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday.
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Great news. Its a pain to
Great news. Its a pain to look at farmers market schedules to figure out where and when they are open. Having the public market open every day solves that for the many people who live and work near it.
Gee, that's tough.
I do not feel your pain.
Look it up once, or print the weekly calendar.
Markets move locations,
Markets move locations, change what days or hours they are open, close for holidays etc.
This market doesn't move and is open every day. See how that is easier? And I don't print things out because its not 1996.
yay
More time for people to use it as a food court...
Great News
Leslie Adam can leave her massive Beacon Hill condo to shop daily for her $6 tomatoes and salad greens.
Hey, those
$6lb toms are locally sourced and lovingly hand washed. :)
The best part about local
The best part about local produce is that farmers pay themselves a fair wage, unlike CA farm workers who are exploited.
Not just any old salad greens...
EAST BOSTON salad greens. Grown in some parking lot one stop away from Boston Public Market.
CEO Cronin should consider changing the name to
Boston Elite Public Market.
Also, note to those seeking a place to pee, you will need a security code to get into either of the bathrooms as they are only keypad code accessible. I will assume that you need to ask one of the vendors. I was lucky, as a vendor went in front of me.
Also, I wish CEO Cronin would consider having all the vendors place the prices of their products in a visible manner for potential customers. I should not have to ask how much is something in this day and age (of course, if I have to ask, I probably can't afford it anyhow).
Also, if you are are offering take out food products (i.e. sandwiches), you should indeed increase the seating. I guess one could purchase a $17 pastrami sandwich and eat it over at the Quincy Market but that kind of defeats the purpose.
So let me get this straight.
You want not only dirt cheap food--newsflash: there's plenty and it's coming from China, Mexico, Chile, etc--but you want these folks to provide you a free, clean place to void your bodily wastes at no charge? Who's being elitist exactly?
Look--no one is getting rich off this enterprise. If thinking that farmers and food producers deserve some kind of a living wage is elitist then honestly, I don't know where we're headed. There are plenty of places for you to shop for cheap produce, most of it laden with chemicals you can't pronounce and harvested by children. And there are lots of other places to pee too. Get over yourself.
Complainers
Yes, lets just turn in back into a vacant building, it's not exactly what I wanted it to be.
The state sunk 6.5 million into this
thing, money, in my humble opinion that could of been used for better purposes. So, yeah, aside from the elite atmosphere of the place, I have a problem with millions in state money going into an enterprise that really only serves a small albeit wealthy portion of the city and its environs.
I truly wish I could shop
I truly wish I could shop there but it still wouldn't fit my food budget. And no, I don't smoke cigarettes and buy lottery tickets with my hard-earned paycheck. I was, however, able to go there and get plenty of free samples of some of the baked goods from some of the vendors who are very pleasant.
Vendors: Please post your prices clearly
It's just the polite thing to do.
The Boston Public Market has
The Boston Public Market has a great variety of artisanal products. Now that it will be open seven days a week starting in July, it gives us all a chance to enjoy it for longer! Since this is the height of the growing season, it will be interesting to see what the vendors have to offer.