The People's Supermarket 21st February 2011 5:49 PM
Has anybody else been watching the The People's Supermarket - Channel 4
It's an interesting concept, dreamed up 2 years ago by chef, Arthur Potts Dawson.... "on a visit to the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York, the granddaddy of modern co-operative shopping. Set up in 1973, the Food Coop... ...is co-owned by 14,000 members, who each work an hour or more a month in return for discounts of up to 40 per cent. Organic poultry nestles next to wild fish and fairtrade chocolate; freshly baked bread is sold alongside artisan cheeses and environmentally safe cleaning supplies. 'They're extraordinary there,' says Potts Dawson. 'You get people coming in at 5am, two hours before going to work, to stock the shelves. We've got just over 400 members, and we couldn't hope to have the same set-up so early on. But this is the embryonic stage - our principles are the same.' (Full Article).
Would you work a few hours a month in the supermarket to get the benefits?
I raise it as I've just seen that there may be a national roll-out for the People's Supermarket.
Is David Camerons Big Society taking shape?
It's an interesting concept, dreamed up 2 years ago by chef, Arthur Potts Dawson.... "on a visit to the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York, the granddaddy of modern co-operative shopping. Set up in 1973, the Food Coop... ...is co-owned by 14,000 members, who each work an hour or more a month in return for discounts of up to 40 per cent. Organic poultry nestles next to wild fish and fairtrade chocolate; freshly baked bread is sold alongside artisan cheeses and environmentally safe cleaning supplies. 'They're extraordinary there,' says Potts Dawson. 'You get people coming in at 5am, two hours before going to work, to stock the shelves. We've got just over 400 members, and we couldn't hope to have the same set-up so early on. But this is the embryonic stage - our principles are the same.' (Full Article).
Would you work a few hours a month in the supermarket to get the benefits?
I raise it as I've just seen that there may be a national roll-out for the People's Supermarket.
Is David Camerons Big Society taking shape?
