The Coronavirus pandemic put pressure on businesses to adapt or face closing their doors indefinitely. But what about the places that hadn’t even opened yet, ones that planned to debut during this time? Without the chance to do business as usual, surely they were doomed from the start, right?
If you were to ask husband and wife team Lauren and Joseph Macrino, co-founders of TARE, they’d disagree. The new grocery store in Los Angeles, which opened on Earth Day 2020 (April 22), offers consumers all plastic-free items and foods to buy in bulk. They’d been thinking about creating a plastic-free grocery store for years, so postponing their opening didn’t make sense and instead, they opted to forge ahead with their operations and provide the Highland Park neighborhood with organic, non-GMO items. After all, even in the middle of a pandemic, consumers still want and need eco-conscious products.
