Organic Foods: Casualty of the Economy

Last week, I mentioned that consumer spending on luxury goods is down. What I didn’t really think about at the time is how organic foods might be a luxury item.
The thought that luxury spending might extend to such things as organic food occurred to me yesterday when I got an email from the local organic market explaining that the store was closing later this month. Since I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere, this is a blow to me. We don’t have chain organic stores. Sometimes the other grocery stores have a few items, but there …read more