he did succeed. he correctly guessed that the new residents cared more about beer, cigarettes, sweet and salty snacks (no matter the price) and less about healthy and affordable groceries. soon after we had Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s added to the mix on the L and the rest is history. now it is a glamorous convenience store and after Vega’s burned, where I go to get my beer. i have wondered why people accept prices that are higher than the East Village and SOHO for the same products as if we are supposed to pay an extra tax for moving here. (I know for a fact that the store’s rent was much lower than those places although it has gone up some but still not close to Manhattan or even Wburg prices). I first moved to Bushwick because it was cheap and convenient to the city. BN is better than nothing, but I wish people wouldn’t accept being targeted and overcharged. It’s all part of the bubble of living there. I’m sure a lot of people don’t get their regular groceries there anymore anyway. and… I hear he’s opening a liquor store when he can.

I go to the Associated around the corner from me on Knickerbocker when I have to. otherwise, I brave the lines at Trader Joes before jumping on the L at 3RD Ave.

No thank you. I would rather vote with my dollar than damage a locally-owned business by stealing. Just because the owners of Brooklyn Natural are successful,and have a large mark up on food, doesn’t entitle you to a piece of the pie. You can’t even justify stealing from local business if you are looking at it from the anti-capitalism/work philosophy of Crimethinc. It’s not like Whole Foods or Walmart where products are insured for loss to a degree. With local business if you steal from a store, your actually stealing from the employees too.

In other words, even their beer selection is overpriced. There is a distribution center on Montrose with most of the same product, at a superior price.

It is supported by the desperite people of bushwick who really would like some organic/cruelty-free junkfood but aren’t about to travel far from home. For packaged, non-produce goods of a “natural” sort, it is in the end it is your best bet, but it comes at such a ludicrously high price that you are deffiently better off just planning a trip into manhattan than doing this to yourself.

The produce is beligerantly overpriced and worthless as it is. Ignore it. Go there for the afromentioned totally righteous beer selection, all at standard prices, and the prevalace of 30% markup vegan/veg frozen/fried/bullshit capital P Products when in a bind, I guess. They have a sandwich makin/hot food bar, but it’s deffinelty no good to the vegan or vegetarian and as for the meat eater you can do better for less in the area.

Steal freely from them, they have unscrupulous eyes as it goes.

Complete oportunistic bitches doing better than average in a place that has no choice and is somewhat grateful for its late hours and, can’t overstate, wicked beer-related possibilities. Do not buy their produce or anything you can’t live without until tomorrow morning.