Coventrys Farmer Market and inno

Joseph Rodrigues

Coventry Economic Development

Commision(CEDC) shed importance on the
growth of the farmers market attitude as a big
issue and its popularity among the businesses
of Coventry. The town of Coventry houses a
community full of vendors and volunteers who
get together once a week to bring products of
agriculture varying from Hosmer Soda to
products farmed or raised in Coventry. The
twelfth year of Coventrys Farmers Market
brings the possibility of ending the volunteerrun business,but the town council committee
has been meeting regularly to make sure the
market stays open in 2016 and beyond. Winter
Caplanson, the executive director of the
Farmers Market Stated "Age and health catches
up with the group referring to three of its five
board members who have serious health issues
and are all among the age of 70 and arent
capable of putting in the abundant energy
needed to run the market every week.
Regardless of such pushbacks, the town is
fighting to prevent such a dreary event. State
Representative, Tim Ackert even voiced his
opinion stating we need to fight to cease the
economic and great loss to the people who have
benefited from the Farmers Market food and
programs. While the towns committee has
made plans for 2016, the Farmers Market will
open at the end of May spearheading initiatives
to develop a new Interests.

Above is an example of how a

business isnt utilizing
technology to their benefit.

Businesses all around Coventry share a

daunting characteristic, they dont utilize
technology for their own benefit. Local
businesses from Coventry Pizza all the way to
Coventry Fitness fail to utilize the services they
are given in free publicity and reviews from
Google. Of the currently 21 running business
only three take advantage of this opportunity
and stand out. In a recent statistic stated by
Google 4 out of 5 consumers use search
engines to find local information and 97% of
consumers go on line to search for local goods
and services. With statistics largely impactful
as that it would be jaw dropping if anyone still
didnt take advantage of this. According to Tim
Liptrap, businesses are too speculative of this
free feature and assume that it will somehow
steal and/or ask money from them,give
confidential details away, and open the
restaurant to hasty reviews. Despite all of the
possible negative traits, the reason its
offered for free is because of the commission
they make in ads. By adding local businesses
into their business circle, they run ads which
gross income for Google and in return offer this
feature for free.

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Market from June 23.