Downtown Winnipeg BIZ offering $50K to offset COVID-19 costs Parts of Mottola Grocery, such as the hot table, were geared towards office workers, but with little foot traffic in the area, Mottola replaced the section with new products.However, Mottola said he was never relying on the downtown crowd to support the store.He’s instead hoping to bring suburban shoppers to the downtown by offering hundreds of unique products, including his own brand, which can only be purchased at the grocery store.“The package as a whole, the development and where we are was always intended to elicit a response from people coming from their south-end homes, their west-end homes, their north-end homes, wherever they are,” Mottola said.