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Avenues Bakery closing shop due to increase in food prices

I have a couple "Google Email Alerts" for economic issues like store closings. I usually don't read them anymore, they are so numerous. The untold story is all the "mom and pop" small businesses that are going under all over the country.

You hear about Sears, Sharper Image, Wilsons Leather and other big chain stores that are suffering. Small stores are closing left and right all over the nation. I guess since these are local stores, the local paper might cover the closing, but this national trend is largely unreported.

I think the landlord may be in for a rude awakening. This store may never again have the steady rent payments enjoyed up til now.

Down town is just out of site on rent
I would be happy to see all of these places move outside of SLC
Maybe the rent will be more reasonable in down town when the City Council stops screwing up business with stupid parking meters and big fines
How stupid
Tracks in the street
Expensive

I nearly cried at the counter last week when i found out the bakery wouldn't be relocating locally. In the 35 years since coming to the US from Europe, theirs was the only bread i have fully enjoyed. The bagettes and French Country were just the way I remember them growing up or when I visit over there.

I sincerely hope that an enterprising baker will pick up the bread side of the business. I have to say I only had lunch there a couple of times but I walked, biked or drove to Emigration Market several times a week to pick up my Avenues bread.

Last week, I took 2 French Country and 2 Multi Grain loaves with me to Albuquerque where my son and his family moved to 6 months ago. I've done that every month. I had to tell them it would be the last time.

In Salt Lake, there's no substitute for the Avenues Bakery bread.

I wish the owners well but this is a personal loss for me.

I only ate there once. The food was good but the service was so bad I never went back.

I grew up in Ashland, 4th generation Ashlander. I think the Chadbournes will be surprised by the type of folks who live there now. I will take the SLC'ers above some of the "nut cases" living in in that lovely city. All is not well in Ashland. Good luck folks!!!

Maybe after senator reid and his collegues get through investigating polygamy,baseball steroids,page boy sex scandals just maybe they can address the forth coming collapse of our economy and the possibility of us becomming a third world country.just maybe they will get around to this!!!

Living in Illinois, we thought that the biofuel made from local corn would be a great way to reduce importing from overseas, and help the farmers and our economy.

We were so wrong! We didn't see the whole picture of how biofuels contribute to lower food supply and higher cost of transportation. Hopefully, we will change this practice in favor of continental drilling, and advancing other sources of fuel. Buying local really makes sense.

Best of luck to the Avenues Bakery. I hope all goes well for them in Oregon.

The Governor can go to Walmart.

This irritated me when Desnews first wrote this place might be closing...
WHO CARES if Huntsman and his family frequent this bakery. It has no relevance to the issues at hand.

Linda It not only screws up the food chain it uses more energy to create ethonal than it produces.

I am ok with this Bakery closing because the service there was ridiculously terrible.

ChainSawHarry you are correct. Ashland does have some crazy people. I live 20 miles from Ashland and try to avoid Ashland at all costs. Also, were they thinking of the high cost of living in the Rogue Valley? Housing is very high, gas is higher than in Salt Lake, I'm not sure moving is going to solve their financial issues. Good luck!

Reid doesn't want to drill off shore, he is going to stop it from going to a vote, so thank him. High gas prices are forcing up the price of food, and so our dear Harry Reid is probably one of the sole reasons behind our misery.

Don't leave guys! We'll find you a sweet spot for half the cost on the west side!

Sorry they are closing, I ate there occasionally and found the people to be very pleasant and the food was okay. I wish them luck. Most people from Utah are cheap.
The average oil well in the US produces about 9 barrels of oil each day, even if we hit a very productive zone our refineries in the US can not increase their production capacity. Stop thinking the Arctic or offshore drilling is our solution to this problem. The cost of a onshore drilling rig is 8-15 million, an offshore rig is 10 times that and we lost many rigs and drill sites during Katrina and Rita. Do you think we are going to find the mother lode and then set our own price? High priced gas is here to stay and it will go higher with increased demand from China and India. Once again -high gas prices are here to stay, no, higher gas prices are going higher.

Everywhere I look it seems there is another small store closing. Mom & pop shops are a dying breed with the lethal mixture of our economy and the WalMarts.

The Bakery may be moving but the baker is not, did you know that he has earned national awards for his bread. It is an art form that is going to be lost. His talents will now be used to bake with the masses in large quantities of rather normal breads. Save the arts!

to Public Radio the other day and an Economist was talking about how people need not worry about the economy because it will eventually bounce back.

Then reading stories like this and I'm thinking, I sure hope the economist knows what he is talking about.

I'm sorry to say this, but Salt Lake City is anti-business. People can't wait six months for a zoning change to move a business. Business needs to move fast to be successful and our government processes are so complicated that they crawl. If Salt Lake City government were attuned to the needs of small business, the city would be a much heathier small business climate.