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Anabel's Grocery is a student-run, low-cost grocery store that aims to alleviate the burden of food insecurity on Cornell’s campus by providing students with healthy, accessible, and affordable food. After opening it's doors for the first full semester in September of 2017, Anabel's has served over 2,000 unique customers and continues to grow.

History
The idea for Anabel's Grocery arose in 2014 when Cornell students noticed an extreme shortage of access to nutritious food in their Collegetown community. With the nearest full service grocery store over a thirty minute bus ride away, Collegetown qualified as a Food desert and the students knew something had to be done. They lobbied the Cornell Student Assembly for the inclusion of a question addressing this concern on the 2015 Cornell University PULSE survey. The question asked students how often they had, "skipped meals or not had enough to eat because of financial constraints" during the course of the previous academic year. 22.2% of students surveyed reported experiencing this adversity, while 3.3% of students surveyed reported experiencing it "very often." When the same question appeared on Cornell's 2017 PULSE survey, these statistics had risen to 27.8% of students reporting being effected and 5.3% effected "very often." To address what was therefore a clearly prevalent issue on Cornell's campus, Anabel's Grocery was founded.

Operations and Internal Structure
Anabel's Grocery is completely student run and operates on an entirely volunteer-based system. At the head of the organizational structure is the Project Coordinator, who oversees all of Anabel's Grocery and is the primary liaison between Anabel's and university administration. Directly under the Project Coordinator are the Director of Store Operations and Director of Communications, who are responsible for overseeing daily operation of the store and Anabel's as an organization respectively.

Included in the team of the Director of Store Operations is the Operations Manager, Purchasing Manager, and Finance Manager. The Operations Manager oversees an Operations Team. From stocking to the details of cash handling, the Operations Team is responsible for the tasks essential to making Anabel's a functioning store. The Purchasing Manager oversees the Purchasing Team, which is responsible for placing and receiving deliveries. The Finance Manager is in charge of pricing.

Under the Director of Communications are the Design, IT, Social Impact, Public Relations, Programming, and Fundraising teams. The Design Team is responsible for producing the store's graphics and signage, and played in instrumental role in crafting the store's initial layout. The Social Impact Team is in charge of both assigning and monitoring a subsidy for students qualifying as food insecure. Public Relations and Fundraising teams raise awareness and money for the store respectively.The Programing Team is responsible for hosting various nutritional outreach events in order to increase food literacy across Cornell's campus. Events hosted by the Programing Team include cooking classes, round tables, documentary screenings, and more.

Subsidy
Anabel's Grocery offers a significant subsidy for students who qualify as food insecure. Qualification is assessed through an internal metric, which based off of the United States Department of Agriculture's food insecurity questionnaire (the federal method used for accessing food security standing nationwide.)

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Anabel's Groceryis a student-run, low cost grocery store that aims to alleviate the burden of food insecurity on Cornell’s campus by providing students with healthy, accessible, and affordable food. After opening it's doors in September of 2017, Anabel's has served over 2,000 unique customers and continues to grow.

The idea for Anabel's Grocery arose when Cornell students noticed an extreme shortage of access to nutritious foods in their collegetown community, and resulting impacts on the health of their peers. A question was included on the 2015 Cornell University PULSE survey asking students how often they had, "Skipped meals or not had enough to eat because of financial constraints." 3.3% of students who responded to the survey reported experiencing this "very often." When the same question appeared on the 2017 PULSE survey, this statistic had risen to 5.3%. To address this issue, Anabel's Grocery was founded. Not only does the presence of Anabel's address what was a food desert in Ithaca's Collegetown neighborhood, where most Cornell students reside, it also controls the economic boundaries to healthy food by selling produce and other healthy staples with minimum mark-ups. Furthermore, Anabel's offers a significant subsidy for students who qualify.

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