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At Rainbow Grocery, our purpose is to provide natural, organic, vegetarian food and environmentally and health conscious products at an affordable price. Rainbow Grocery Cooperative is an independent, collectively run, worker owned and operated cooperative at which decision making and responsibilities are shared through democratic structures and elected committees.

LATESTSCOOP
Study Shows Grape Seed Extract (GSE) May Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

Get the full scoop on the NaturalNews.com website! Warning: you may lose some sleep once you've digested the concept of "brain plaques"....
Additional Rainbow Parking Spaces!

Rainbow Grocery Cooperative is pleased as punch to announce additional parking spaces, available every day of the week from 12 noon to 8pm, at 1748 Folsom (across Folsom Street from Rainbow).
Parking map for Rainbow

A map for where parking is available around the Rainbow Grocery store can be found here.
Attention MUNI Riders!

Under the proposed changes MUNI is considering, the 12 Folsom line would be combined with the 27 Bryant line and be rerouted to run on Harrison Street.

If you use MUNI to get to Rainbow and would like to voice concern about these changes you can:

    - Email your concerns to info@sftep.com
    - Call the 311 customer service line
    - Fill out one of the comment forms available at the        Customer Service Desk and we will mail them for you

Rainbow Honored by
César Chavez
Holiday Committee

For its many years of support for César Chavez and the United Farmworkers, Rainbow Grocery has been presented with the "Celebrating a Legacy of Social Justice" Award by Eva Royal, a long-time worker with the UFW and presently chair of the César Chavez Holiday Committee. The award is signed by Dolores Huerta. This beautiful original framed graphic is hanging on the Rainbow front display wall, to the right of the glass cases where the César Chavez main display is.





Stop Mandatory Almond Pasteurization!


In response to outbreaks of Salmonella in 2001 and 2004 traced to raw almonds grown in California, the Almond Board of California and the USDA have created a mandatory program requiring all raw almonds to be sanitized through pasteurization.

This rule requires fumigation of commercially grown almonds with Propylene Oxide (a possibly carcinogenic chemical) or high temperature heat, and allows almonds to be deceptively labeled as "raw" following this treatment. It imposes a significant financial burden on small-scale and organic growers, lacks scientific justification, damages domestic almond markets, and does not address the unsustainable methods used on industrial-scale almond orchards where the only traced-back Salmonella outbreak occurred.

Rainbow Grocery Cooperative's Bulk Department is committed to not carrying any products that have been pasteurized with Propylene Oxide. We are asking all our manufacturers to use steam pasteurization for their commercially grown almonds. We also are in the process of replacing any products that continue to use almonds pasteurized with the PPO process.

For more information about the almonds and almond products that Rainbow sells, consult our Almond Information Board (in the Bulk Department) or ask a Bulk Worker.

For detailed specifics on problems associated with the almond treatment rule, please see the Almond Fact Sheet, prepared by The Cornucopia Institute at:

www.cornucopia.org/almond/AlmondFactSheet.doc >>
or
 www.cornucopia.org/index.php/almonds >>

For a sample letter to USDA Secretary Chuck Conner,
expressing opposition to this regulation, click
 here >>




Tuesdays and Thursdays
5 pm to 7 pm

Sundays 4 pm to 7 pm

(except holidays - see days closed)

At the Loading Dock on Trainor Alley
between 13th and 14th streets

For more information about the SF Biofuels Coop, go to:
sfbiofuel.org >>




(click here to order gift certificates online)

SAY CHEESE !!

Check out the Rainbow Cheese Blog
Or a list of Local Cheese Producers
(where they are and what they make)


Check out the Rainbow Cheese Blog here >>

Find out about local cheeses here >>


Get Fresh Perspectives !

Our September produce newsletter is now available.
Just click here to download a PDF.


 

FEATUREDPRODUCTS  

Order Rainbow Gift Certificates here.

The following products are currently on sale
in the Vitamins Department:

We have remedies for Colds and the Flu.

Alacer Emergen-C Raspberry 36p
Sale Price: $9.56 (Regular Price: $10.99)

Am Health Ester C-1000mg +Biof 180tb
Sale Price: $22.62 (Regular Price: $26.00)

Hyland's Sniffuls 4 Kids 125tab
Sale Price: $5.66 (Regular Price: $6.50)

Nature's Way Alive! Vitamin-C 120 veg cap
Sale Price: $17.99 (Regular Price: $21.59)

Now Elder-Zinc 30 lozenges
Sale Price: $3.99 (Regular Price: $4.78)

Solgar Vit C-500mg 100vegcap
Sale Price: $7.86 (Regular Price: $9.04)

Zand Echinacea 2oz
Sale Price: $9.74 (Regular Price: $11.20)

Enhance and recover from your workouts with our athletic supplements!

Living Harvest Hemp Protein Orig 1#
Sale Price: $13.99 (Regular Price: $16.11)

Naturade Naturade Weight Gain 16.93oz
Sale Price: $8.70 (Regular Price: $10.00)

Zand Zand Active Herbal 4oz
Sale Price: $9.74 (Regular Price: $11.20)

See the vitamins page
for a complete list of
sale items >>

All sale items are available while supplies last and are subject to change at any time.


Rainbow is closed on the following dates:

New Year's Day
Martin Luther King Day (3rd Monday in January)
Cesar Chavez Day (March 31st)
May Day (May 1st)
Gay Pride Day (Last Sunday in June)
Labor Day (1st Monday in September)
Thanksgiving (4th Thursday in November)
Christmas (December 25th)


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