People who live in Jamaica Plain are international. Private shops in Jamaica Plain work harder and get more low-income than chain store’s employees. JP Centre/South Main Street supports these people to facilitate communication and make enough rewards. Besides, stores in Jamaica Plain are organized for the neighborhood. An example of it is food shops. They get their ingredients from Boston, not other areas. Besides, almost all employees are from neighboring regions.
Food supply stores encourage improving hunger problems in developing countries and neighboring agriculture. For example, they sell fair trade foods from developing countries like Africa and local products. I looked around the supply store. These fair-trade foods and local products, such as coffee, chocolate, and honey, are more expensive than usual merchandise, but it is essential to support hungry people. The store sells many fresh goods like grocery stores, with coffee and sandwiches. Jamaica Plain does not have any supermarkets for fresh food, so they help inhabitants’ lives. People don’t buy much food in the store, so owners have to feel difficulties opening it. To face these hardships, they raise the price of their products by about 10%.
In addition to the special supply store, they have a community refrigerator. Citizens can donate foods that they don’t need to there. Starving people can get food in the refrigerator whenever they want, so helps to reduce the hunger issue in Jamaica Plain.
Finally, churches in Jamaica Plain give fresh food to people who don’t have the opportunity to eat safe ones. One of the two churches provides fresh foods to them once a week. Another church puts food so everyone can pick them up every time. The blue flog bakery also provide fresh food once a week.
I think people in this community help each other between stores and residents. Stores in Jamaica Plain try to assist people’s lives, customers mind buying items in these shops and from local goods, and JP Centre/South Main Street supports the whole of the community by managing stores and systems for people who ask for help. I predict this street will stay developing in the future. In actuality, many stores have been kept open for over 100 years. They will support people in hunger, local farmers, and developing countries that face some problems.
Nao Miyama
25120363@st.swu.ac.jp
