INDIANAPOLIS — An east side grocery store is fighting to keep the area from becoming a food desert.“It was a Herculean task to get this to where it was, and I think we all realized it was just bigger than what we thought,” Cook Medical President Pete Yonkman said.Yonkman helped fund the opening of the Indy Fresh Market, alongside Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana, back in September 2023.
”Grady Mcgee is the senior director of operations for the market. He explained that the store is struggling to compete with big chains.“Walmart, for example, they have the buying power that they can go directly to the manufacturer. When you have a small community grocery store, we don't have the ability to go right to the manufacturer. We have to use a food broker,” Mcgee said.