| a ae PRE eerie nee oe “] TERRACE — Local super- markets are rushing to meet the demand of consumers for en- vironmentally friendly policies and products. . Terrace’s three major grocery stores — Safeway, Overwaitea and the Co-op — all agree that public opinian about the en- vironment is causing the change. “A lot of our members are concerned .and want more done,’® said Co-op board presi- dent Pat Sheichuk. She said the store plans to sell customers re-usable string bags to get them to stop filling the dump with paper and plastic bags. Terrace Co-op manager Lawrence Gosselin said the store is now carrying en- vironmentally friendly product lines that include cleansers, reusable diapers, biodegradable bags’ and organically grown local produce, ‘We've carried some of these things for years,’ Sheichuk said: “We just haven't advertis- ed them,”” Overwaitea is introducing an incentive system to encourage consumers to bring back and reuse their shopping bags. Customers will be given “‘en- virocards'’ which get stamped every time they bring back bags to go shopping. Customers who get their cards fully stamped receive get a $1 coupon for en- vironmentally friendly products and their names are entered in a monthly draw for $100 in pro- ducts and subscriptions. Overwaitea’s new manager of environmental concerns, Dennis Kinsey, said last week the system will go into effect Feb. 1 and will also be used to promote TERRACE — The latest in the chamber of commerce's Business After Hours events takes place this afternoon. Iv'll be held at First Choice Travel. kKkkkkx Terrace Co-op will decide soon if it will build a cardlock fuel station next to its new building supplies store on Molitor, says manager Lawrence Gosselin. And it’s also close to moving its gas bar at the main building to an adjoining piece of land to provide more parking, he said. kkkkkk Two Skeena Mall stores are moving to a mini-mall on Lazelle Ave. Spokesman from Radio Shack and Carmen’s Kitchen say part of the reason is they don’t want to open on Sundays. That's a condition of the lease for stores at the mall, Naida Stainton of Radio Shack and Carmen Seltenrich of Carmen’s Kitchen also said their new premises will give them more room in which to sell merchandise. _ Seltenrich said she will also put in a cappucino bar. Both businesses will be moy- ing the end of this month and open the first of next month, ke kkk tores key on environment THE NEW LOOK in shopping bags. Safeway’ 's Dave Edmonds bags a shapper's groceries in a re-usable string bag. Terrace’s three ma- jor grocery stores are all considering selling re-usable bags or con- tainers as enviionmentally friendly alternatives to the familliar “paper or plastic.” Some are bringing in incentive systems to en- courage shoppers to bring their own bags, JUT. AND ABOU at . Matrix offers a complete system of restructurizing parms, one for every type of hale Each formula infuses the exclusive Matrix Alphatine Complex’ deep into the cortex to replenish the hair's key structural alaments and guarantee the most The vacant space in Carmen’s Kitchen’s spot at the Skeena Mali will be filled by a similar venture called Gemma’s Kit- chens. Bruno Belanger of Gemma’s Bathroom Boutique said having two such stores adjacent to each other will broaden his product line. Both stores will be decorated the same. Keke kK Spotless Cleaners has closed its Kermode Cleaners outiet in the Skeena Mall and has con- solidated operations at its Lakelse Ave, outlet. Spotless spokesman John Heighington said a new drycleaning machine installed last summer makes it possible to concentrate its operations at one location. Spotless also owns Superior Linen and Time Cleaners. kkk kk Still with activity at the mall, Gem Computers is moving into the vacant Kermode Cleaners With every perm receive a FREE & oz. bottle. _of PERM FRESH (Leave In curl retention ald $8.96 value) shine, resilience and tensile strength aver, Matrix parms de- liver results that look and feel completely natural and assure ultimate client satisfaction and complete styling freedom. Spot, Gem spokesman Carlie Per- rault said there will be more space for the outlet which ‘Open- ed a year and half ago in the mall, And because the new location has an entrance opening outside of the mall, it will give the store the option to open or not to open Sundays, he said.. Gem Computers also has a store in Smithers. Announcements are expected soon on new businesses moving into the retail spaces in the mall. kkk hae Joe Pitzoff from the Thor nhill tree nursery is moving to a new one at Abbotsford. He'll be the manager. there - for the year and be the manager in charge of growing trees for Alberta companies. The Ab- botsford venture is being run by Pacific Regeneration Technologies. It's the same company that owns the Thor- nhill nursery, i Matrix’ the chain’s environmental ro- ducts. Save-On Foods stores opted to charge customers for bags, and more than 40 per cent of customers now bring their own, With Overwaitea, Kinsey said it was decided to use incentives: rather than penalties. ‘In any. of these environmental issues. we're finding that peopie have ~ to have some kind of incentive: to get into it,”” he said ‘They all [> have good intentions, but there’ has to be something to get them - start: . Kinsey, said Overwaitea is . committed to selling as much organic produce as there is de- mand for. The store also wants. to carry more lines of unbleach- ed paper products, and Kinsey said unbleached toilet paper is appearing on shelves this week. Unbleached paper products are expensive because the store's only suppliers are Euro- pean, he said. “'We’re trying to get North American suppliers involved to get the costs down.” Organic produce is also ex- pensive because supply hasn’t caught up with demand yet, he said. He said grocery store chains must reflect consumer demand and urge suppliers to start car- rying more environmentally safe products and cut down on excessive packaging. “We're in the supply and demand business,” he said. “If our customers demand a certain type of product, we're going to track it down and get it for them — that’s how we stay in business.”’ The store will also sell nylon- cotton string shopping bags and is trying to find a way to let customers use their awn con- tainers for bulk and deli food items, A Safeway spokesman said it vs. also,, planning. similar..cam-....} ~ Daigns “and that details will be * released soon. : THE PAINLESS ALTERNATIVE TO ELECTROLYSIS § ORES SG RS 248 san en ne tenes lt i a ~CHER-AN’S REMOVATRON Kinsey said the company's : # COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION - * FACIALS & SGALP TREATMENTS 635-3307 A601 LAZELLE, TERRACE Instant Tax Receipts * This year combina complete convenience with a tlexible RASP Ihat offers 4 Savings choles and no administrative cost. . 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