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Recent Community Discussions
- What pricing decision is hardest to make confidently? Discussion
- Build the schedule around workload, not just around who is available Discussion
- What is the scheduling problem that wastes the most time in your store? Discussion
- Too much inventory can hurt a grocery store just as badly as too little Discussion
- What food-access question do you wish a map could answer? Discussion
Unanswered Questions
- Build the schedule around workload, not just around who is available
- Too much inventory can hurt a grocery store just as badly as too little
- A display should have a job
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Funding & Opportunities
- Open [Open] Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science Program
- Open [Open] Fiscal Year 2027 Expanding Nutrition Services
- Open [Closed] Healthy Cooking in Communities
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