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Darien Farmers Market Gets Town’s OK to Move to Whole Foods, If the Vendors Want That

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Whole Foods supermarket management has decided it would welcome Darien Farmers Market if the vendors want to move there, and town officials will allow it. The CEO of the company that owns Goodwives Shopping Center, however, says his company would like to see the Farmers Market stay there. On Monday, the Darien Planning & Zoning Commission heard a request for a permit to allow the Farmers Market to move to the part of Whole Foods parking lot that’s closer to the Post Road. The commission granted approval in a unanimous vote. Commissioners said the new location didn’t seem likely to harm anyone — neighbors shouldn’t be affected, there seemed to be enough parking and the move wouldn’t take place unless Whole Foods and the vendors thought it was to their advantage.

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Online Order and Pick-Up Service Coming to Stop and Shop at Goodwives Shopping Center

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You’ll be able to order food online and arrange to park for minutes and get it delivered to your car at the Stop & Shop Supermarket in Goodwives Shopping Center later this year, according to representatives from the supermarket. Along with the new service, the store “will be significantly redoing the interior,” sometime later this year, town Planning and Development Director Jeremy Ginsberg told the Planning and Zoning Commission last week. “The concept […] is called ‘Click and Collect,'” Lydia Fadool, a Stop & Shop representative told the commission. “It’s an e-commerce initiative whereby the customer places their order online from the convenience of their home or wherever, pays for their groceries, picks a time slot — usually it’s a three-hour window — and then arrives on site.” The customer “will pull right into one of the designated [parking] spaces.

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Will Darien Farmers Market Move to Whole Foods’ Parking Lot? It’s Being Discussed

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A proposal to move Darien Farmers Market to the parking lot of Whole Foods Market was put on the agenda for last week’s town Planning & Zoning Commission, but the item was removed because an agreement hasn’t been reached at this point, the commission was told. “They haven’t pulled it together yet,” Planning & Zoning Director Jeremy Ginsberg said of the farmer’s market organizers and Whole Foods. “It might be on a future agenda.” The Darien Farmers Market just opened in the Goodwives Shopping Center parking lot, where the market takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesdays. “They have been talking about the possibility of moving,” Ginsberg told the commission.