The CHEATERS known as vendors Carol Vena and Denise Brock still operate freely at the Ann Arbor Public Market, although they violate a cardinal Market Operating Rule that allows a single business entity to maintain only up to 3 stalls. The management of the Public Market, despite numerous attempts at informing them of such violations of Market Rules, continues to let these CHEATERS get away with it. These two vendors, Carol Vena and Denise Brock, also make a ton of money at the Northville Farmers Market, but can only operate there as a single business entity. At the Ann Arbor Public Market, Denise Brock gets 3 annual stalls, and Carol Vena gets 3 annual stalls. They are allowed by the market management in Ann Arbor to operate as 2 separate businesses, when clearly, from the screen capture above, they are ONE BUSINESS!!
This unfair situation that has been allowed to continue year after year at the Ann Arbor Public Market disadvantages all of the other vendors at the market. Carol Vena and Denise Brock are essentially doubling their income at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market on the backs of other vendors, many who have to wait years and years on a waiting list to obtain annual stall space. Now that the Public Market Advisory Commission is in the midst of revising rules at the Public Market, perhaps they can influence Jayne Miller, who supervises the Ann Arbor Parks and Recreation Department, to change her tune, and correct this long-standing market atrocity. Come on Jayne!! Stand up for what is fair!! Come on PMAC, DO THE RIGHT THING!! Cut these cheaters down to size!! Mollie Notarianni, Market Manager, are you going to let these cheaters push you around?? Glenn Thompson, self professed Arbor Market Czar, why do you defend and promote these creeps, don't you believe in fairness?
Oh, and another thing: the Gracia clan's greenhouse in Bellville should be inspected in February, March, and April. This should be done because there are indications they don't grow all of their seedlings from seed, they most likely purchase their flats from a larger distributor and then sell them with minimum inputs at the Ann Arbor Public Market, and claim that they are their own production. The 5 vendors who operate off the Gracia greenhouse (Delores Gracia, Tina Koski, T Gracia, Denise Brock and Carol Vena) are able to obtain 16 stall spaces at the market, monopolizing a public space for private benefit. Ann Arborites deserve better.
Fuzzbollah urges You, the consumer, to BOYCOTT CAROL VENA and DENISE BROCK!
