After 10 years in business, Green Zebra Grocery will serve its last kombucha Zlurpee this month. The Portland-based grocery-meets-convenience store chain will shut down operations in March, closing all three of its stores on March 31.
“We have been holding on by a thread since the pandemic started and have been in austerity mode since then,” says Lisa Sedlar, Green Zebra Founder and CEO, in a press release. “We experienced nine straight quarters of increases to our cost of goods, packaging, fuel, insurance, taxes, freight charges and well, pretty much everything. Combine that with supply chain and staffing shortages and razor thin grocery margins, we just couldn’t overcome
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