In the early evening, it’s busy at the Food Conspiracy Co-op. Customers holding baskets criss cross in front of the refrigerated shelves of rainbow vegetables. A little sprinkler rains onto the wall of produce from above.
Interim General Manager Wynston Estis says things are calm at Downtown Tucson store. She calls it “the calm before the storm.”
She says it’s harvest season in Mexico right now, and prices are normal for the wheat and canola oil that comes from Canada …