Home Cash Market

Located in one of the most disadvantaged and grocery-​starved areas of Sacramento, Home Cash Market may appear to the casual driver-​by to be generically janky and pride-​deficient, but you’d be wrong. Even if the lettering on their hand-​painted sign is crooked and badly spaced, they’ve got plenty of pride in their place and their power to make change in their community.
Home Cash partnered with Soil Born Farms, a local farm, to sell fresh produce as part of a «Convenience Store Makeover» pilot project led by Alchemist Community Development Corporation and the Healthy Eating Active Living Collaborative. They host occasional events in their backyard garden and right in front of the store to promote nutritional education.
I’m fortunate enough to shop at a variety of good supermarkets, but I do sometimes drop by the Home Cash Market to make bad beverage choices when I feel the need for XTREME amounts of caffeine, taurine, L-​carnitine, and whatever else is supposed to make me alert and energetic. I do this gladly because they deserve all the support they can get!