by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
August 10, 2025
This initiative is in celebration of Black Enterprise Month
Comic, radio host, and activist Sheletta Brundidge has labored her magic to get an area grocery store in Minnesota to have fun Black Enterprise Month by permitting native Black entrepreneurs to showcase their merchandise of their retailer.
Brundidge related with Hy-Vee in Robbinsdale to debate welcoming these small Black enterprise house owners of their area Aug. 9, so the native residents can meet them and pattern their merchandise.
“Now we have nice merchandise, we’re making salsa within the kitchen, hair care merchandise in our properties, we’ve obtained the pop-ups on the farmer’s market, however we gotta be there, so we will’t preserve creating product,” stated Brundidge in a written assertion.
This chance offers Black small companies the possibility to attach with potential clients, study extra about them and their merchandise, and community.
“It places a reputation to it,” stated Joe Lowe, retailer supervisor on the Robbinsdale Hy-Vee. “So, after they (consumers) see that product on our cabinets, even a month from now, they will bear in mind speaking to Sylvia and Liza from Soul Grain about their product, how they got here up with it, and it makes them be ok with shopping for the merchandise sooner or later.”
The three firms afforded the chance had been Soul Grain, a granola firm from Sylvia Williams, a pastry chef, and Liza Maya, a nutritionist. Nature’s Syrup Hair and Pores and skin Care, an organization began by De’Vonna Pittman for plant-based merchandise for curly hair. Nadia’s Jamaican Kitchen served samples from their restaurant, which is positioned in Brooklyn Park, serving up jerk hen, curry soup, and different Jamaican flavors.
“If we will get these merchandise on the cabinets on the Hy-Vee in Robbinsdale, then we will return and create extra and meet with individuals to do outreach, versus, no matter we sit there and promote, that’s what we get,” Brundidge stated.
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